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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
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