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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.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
