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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
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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.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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