Quotes from Thomas Mann

I confess the contrariness and mischievousness of his ideas but render our acquaintance the more attractive. I need the friction. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them—and I am only confirmed in mine.

I opanowa? go rodzaj rozczulenia, prosta, a nabo?na sympatia do w?asnego serca, do bij?cego ludzkiego serca...

E poi disse la cosa più sottile, l'astuto seduttore: disse questo, che l'amante è più divino dell'amato perché Dio è nel primo ma non nell'altro – forse il pensiero più tenero che sia mai stato pensato e dal quale sgorga la malizia e la più segreta voluttà del desiderio.

that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.

the lover is more blessed than the beloved because God resides in the former, not the latter—probably

niebo nale?y pozostawi? wróblom.

La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

But if they had no sun, they had snow. Such masses of snow as Hans Castorp had never till now in all his life beheld.

All the propaganda carried on to-day by the prophets of nature, the experiments in regeneration, the uncooked food, fresh-air cures, sun-bathing, and so on, the whole Rousseauian paraphernalia, had as its goal nothing but the dehumanization, the animalizing of man.

Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.

La cama es el lugar donde el amante se une a la amada, y se considera el símbolo del retiro contemplativo del mundo y de la criatura con objeto de encontrarse con Dios.

the idea that an unfavourable influence exerted upon a man's personal life by the times in which he lives may even extend to his physical organism.

Ils se sont groupés, car une chose comme un pneumothorax rapproche naturellement les hommes, et ils s'appellent l'Association des demi-poumons [...].

Mon Dieu, dit-il, ils sont libres... Je veux dire, ce sont des jeunes gens, et le temps pour eux n'a pas d'importance. Pourquoi donc feraient-ils triste figure ? Je me dis quelquefois : être malade et mourir, ce n'est pas sérieux en somme, c'est plutôt une sorte de laisser-aller ; du sérieux, on n'en rencontre à tout prendre que dans la vie de la plaine. Je crois que tu comprendras cela, lorsque tu auras séjourné plus longtemps ici.

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

You want everything to be harmless, Castorp, that's the sort of fellow you are. You're not at all averse to getting involved in things that are not harmless, but then you treat them as if they were, and you think that will ingratiate you with God and man.

ju? jesteÅ› gÅ'upi, ?e zmiÅ'uj siÄ™ Bo?e, gÅ'upi jak osioÅ', czÅ'owiek chciaÅ'by zÅ'oi? ci skórÄ™, a twoje myÅ›li chodzÄ… na czworakach z wywieszonym jÄ™zorem (...)

And this whole sunny region—these easily scaled coastal heights, these laughing rock-bound pools, and the sea itself, as far as the islands where boats sailed past now and then—was populated in all directions: people, children of the sea and sun, were stirring and resting everywhere, intelligent, cheerful, beautiful, young humanity, so fair to gaze upon. And at the sight, Hans Castorp's whole heart opened wide—painfully, lovingly wide.

B?rbatul se îmbat? cu propria dorin??, iar femeia cere È™i aÈ™teapt? s? fie îmb?tat? de dorinÈ›a b?rbatului. De aici provine pentru noi obligaÈ›ia pasiunii, de aici decurge înfior?toarea ruÈ™ine a insensibilit??ii, a neputinÈ›ei de a trezi dorinÈ›a femeii.

Benim ac?nas? ruhumu eÄŸitmek için ikiniz, OrtaçaÄŸdaki gibi, Tanr?yla Åžeytan gibi birbirinizle çat???rken o her zaman hakl? ç?ksa da seni daha çok seviyorum.

Even if you do have designs on my cash, and send me down to Pluto with a blow of your oar from behind, you will have rowed me well.

it cannot be said he was suffering: he was drunk in both head and heart, and his steps followed the dictates of the demon whose delight it is to trample human reason and dignity underfoot.

Todavía doy importancia a mi libertad, o al menos a ese resto de libertad y dignidad humana que aún conservamos.