Klaus Mann famous quotes

03-30-2025

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......
-- Klaus Mann

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One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.
-- Klaus Mann

#Wind #Today #Becoming

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

Klaus Mann famous quotes

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