Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man Quotes

“That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

“—Yo no estoy acostumbrado a tomarme la vida a broma, querido marqués. La frivolidad no es lo mío, y menos aún en cuestión de travesuras; porque hay travesuras y bromas que deben tomarse muy, muy en serio…, o nunca saldrán bien. Una gran broma sólo llega a serlo cuando uno ha invertido en ella toda la seriedad del mundo.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“She was not a woman; but she was not a man either and therefore not a human being. A solemn angel of daring with parted lips and dilated nostrils, that is what she was, an unapproachable Amazon of the realms of space beneath the canvas, high above the crowd, whose lust for her was transformed into awe.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“Çünkü insanlardan uzak durmak çilekeşlikse , onları kabul etmek daha büyük çilekeşliktir...”
― Kasım Eğit, Yadigar Eğit, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“Sărăcia, cum bine se spune, nu este o rușine, dar asta-i doar o vorbă. Fiindcă ea este cât se poate de înspăimântătoare pentru cei ce au parte de ea, pe jumătate cusur și pe jumătate reproș nehotărât, așadar în totul foarte dezagreabilă, și a te amesteca cu ea ar putea avea urmări neplăcute.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“la palabra es enemiga de lo misterioso y cruel delatora de lo vulgar.”
― Thomas Mann, Confesiones del estafador Félix Krull

“Porque quien tiene confianza en sí mismo practica lo más difícil para estar mejor preparado en lo fácil,”
― Thomas Mann, Confesiones del estafador Félix Krull