Thomas Mann

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

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

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.

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.

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