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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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.
