In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. - Thomas Mann
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
- Thomas Mann
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. - Thomas Mann
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. - Thomas Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. - Thomas Mann
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. - Thomas Mann
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. - Thomas Mann
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. - Thomas Mann
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordina… - Thomas Mann
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordina…
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