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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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.
