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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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.
