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

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About Thomas Mann

Portrait of Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and...

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No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily—no, hourly—and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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

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Sometimes opposites attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought.

—Allie Brennan in Tight Knit

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We're actors—we're the opposite of people.

—Tom Stoppard

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Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

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