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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
