Tomas Man > Quotes

“The policy are to be commended.' Aschenbach replied, and after a brief exchange of meteorological observations the manager excused himself.”
― Tomas Man, Death in Venice

“the mysterious connection that must be established between the generic and the particular to produce human beauty”
― Tomas Man, Death in Venice

“Защото човек обича и почита човека, докато още не е в състояние да го прецени; копнежът е продукт на недостатъчно познание”
― Tomas Man, Death in Venice

“Yet nothing would seem to dull a deft an noble intellect more swiftly, more surely than the sharp and bitter stimulant of erudition, and clearly the adolescent's melancholic and ever so conscientious thoroughness is shallow when compared with the profound resolve of the mature master to deny knowledge, disavow it, put it behind him, head high, lest it should in the slightest maim, discourage, or debase the will, action, feeling, and even passion.”
― Tomas Man, Death in Venice

“On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, over refinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.”
― Tomas Man