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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
