Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
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1. "Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Time and Passing
2. "Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow."
source: "Libussa"
Categories: Time and Passing
3. "The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child’s delight in bright pictures."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Art and Culture
4. "The real genres: good and bad."
source: "Poems"
Categories: Good and Evil
5. "Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink."
source: "Poems"
Categories: Art and Culture
6. "Love! Hate! Is there no third?"
source: "Sappho"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love
7. "Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief."
source: "Poems"
8. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."
source: "Sappho"
Categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love -:- Richness and Money
9. "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Talent and Genius
10. "Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Talent and Genius
11. "Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Talent and Genius
12. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."
source: "Notebooks and Diaries"
Categories: Art and Culture -:- Nature and Animals
13. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."
source: "Sappho"
Categories: Love -:- Woman and Man
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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