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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - [Truth] A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. - [Solitude] A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - [Writers] A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - [Writers] All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. - [Death : Disease] Art is to the community what the dream is to the individual. - [Art] He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. - [Love] Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. - [Reason] It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - [Love] Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. - [Opinion] People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. - [Behavior] Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state. - [Forgetfulness] Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - [Time] War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - [War] What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so. - [Grief] "What does this mean.--What--does this mean. . . ." "Well, now deuce take it, c'est la question, ma tres chere demoiselle!" - Buddenbooks (ch. 1), (John E. Woods translation) [Books (First Lines)] "And--and--what comes next?" "Oh, yes, yes, what the dickens does come next? C'est la question, ma tres chere demoiselle!" - Buddenbrooks (pt. 1, ch. 1), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) [Books (First Lines)] With utmost emphasis I wish to attest that it is not out of any desire to thrust my own person into the foreground that I offer a few words about myself and my circumstances in preface to this account of the life of the last Adrian Leverkuhn, to this first and certainly very provisional biography of a musical genius, a revered man sorely tried by fate, which both raised him up and cast him down. - Doctor Faustus [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It was beyond the hills north of Hebron, a little east of the Jerusalem road, in the month of Adah; a spring evening, so brightly moonlit that one could have seen to read, and the leaves of the single tree there standing, an ancient and mighty terebinth, short-trunked, with strong and spreading branches, stood out find and sharp against the light, beside their clusters of blossom--highly distinct, yet shimmering in a web of moonlight. - Joseph and His Brothers (ch. 1), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) [Books (First Lines)] Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? - Joseph and His Brothers (prelude), (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) [Books (First Lines)] The atmosphere of Torre di Venere remains unpleasant in the memory. From the first moment the air of the place made us uneasy, we felt irritable, on edge; then at the end came the shocking business of Cipolla, that dreadful being who seemed to incorporate, in so fateful and so humanly impressive a way, all the peculiar evilness of the situation as a whole. - Mario the Magician, a novella, (H.T. Lowe-Porter translation) [Books (First Lines)] An ordinary young man was on his way from his hometown of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the canton of Graubunden. It was the height of summer, and he planned to stay for three weeks. - The Magic Mountain (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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