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

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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
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Hanseatic City of Lübeck
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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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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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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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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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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For the myth is the foundation of life it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
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Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
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