"Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible."

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Source : "Thomas Mann and his family". Book by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Collins, p. 187, 1989.

Golo Mann

“Mathematics is for lazy people.”
“It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.”
“You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.”
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.”
“There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.”
“... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.”
“Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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