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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
