For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature." A gift of life, " I responded, "if not to say, a gift of God, such as music, should not have the mocking charge of paradox leveled at it for things that are merely evidence of the fullness of its nature. One should love them."" Do you believe love is the strongest emotion?" he asked." Do you know any stronger?"" Yes, interest."" By which you probably mean a love that has been deprived of its animal warmth, is that it?"" Let's agree on that definition! " he said with a laugh. "Good night! " We had arrived again at the Leverkühn house, and he opened his front door. Thomas Mann
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  1. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
  2. Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes – who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of...
  3. Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
  4. Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
  5. He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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