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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
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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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…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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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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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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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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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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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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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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Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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