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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 thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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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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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.
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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.
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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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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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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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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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