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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
