Quote by Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

• Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

• A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

• A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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

• 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.

• 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.