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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
