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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
