Thomas Mann

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.