Thomas Mann Quotes


I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.


Citations

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, p. 48.

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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
  • Born: June 6, 1875
  • Died: August 12, 1955
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.