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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.
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.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
