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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
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.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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.
