“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
More from Thomas Mann
“One last thing. Hot girls destroy your life. That's just a fact.”
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”