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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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 writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
