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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
