Thomas Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be read more

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.