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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Speech is civilization itself.
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
What is uttered is finished and done with.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Thomas Mann
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BirthDate
06 June, 1875
DeathDate
12 August, 1955
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Germany
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