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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
