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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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.
