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„Zármutek můžeme nést sami. Ale abychom se dovedli těšit z radosti, musíme se o ni s někým podělit.“
Zdroj: Srovnej s citátem Elberta Hubbarta: Zármutek sneseš sám, ale radost musí být sdílená.
Thomas Mann: Citáty anglicky
“This longing for the bliss of the commonplace.”
Zdroj: Tonio Kröger (1903), Ch. 4, and also in Ch. 9, as translated by David Luke
“It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.”
Hans Castorp on the world outside the sanatorium, in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)
The Coming Victory of Democracy (1938), p. 14, translated by Agnes E. Meyer, Knopf (1938)
Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)
“I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.”
The psychoanalyst "Dr. Krokowski" in Ch. 1
The Magic Mountain (1924)
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”
Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”
Variant translation: It is strange. If an idea gains control of you, you will find it expressed everywhere, you will actually smell it in the wind.
As translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
Tonio Kröger (1903)
Reflections of a Non-Political Man http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=946 [Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen] (1918)
Suffering and Greatness of Richard Wagner (1933)
"Tonio Kröger" on general opinions about artists.
Tonio Kröger (1903)
“What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!”
Bk. 1, Ch. 2
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)
Madame Houpflé, Bk. 2, Ch. 9
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)
Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts! For therein, and in nothing else, lies goodness and love of humankind.
“Latin phrase meaning "It pleases to experiment", Ch. 4”
Placet experiri
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 8/22; article: The Evils of Nazism Exposed.
In 1933, The Golden Age carried the first of many reports of the existence of concentration camps in Germany. In 1938, Jehovah’s Witnesses published the book Crusade Against Christianity, in French, German, and Polish. It carefully documented the vicious Nazi attacks on the Witnesses and included diagrams of the Sachsenhausen and Esterwegen concentration camps.
“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”
Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
“Psycho-analyses — how disgusting.”
"Hans Castorp" in Ch. 1
The Magic Mountain (1924)
“Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.”
Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)
Speech at the US Library of Congress (29 May 1945); published as "Germany and the Germans" ["Deutschland und die Deutschen"] in Die Neue Rundschau [Stockholm] (October 1945), p. 58, as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter
Quoted in Survey of Contemporary Literature (1977) by Frank Northen Magill, p. 4263
“But he would “stay the course” — it was his favorite motto.”
The disposition of the main character "Gustav Aschenbach", Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
Death in Venice (1912)