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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
