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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.