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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
