Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us read more

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state

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.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

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.