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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
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.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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.
