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More Quotes by Thomas Mann
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
