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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
