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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.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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 harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
