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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
