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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
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Essayist
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Social Critic
University Teacher
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Hanseatic City of Lübeck
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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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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.
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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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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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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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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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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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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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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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