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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
