For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.
Tag: Thomas Mann
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.