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Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Quotes: A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
         

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.


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Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?



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I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.



For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.



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