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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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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
University Teacher
Writer
Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Perreo
Solitude
Gregarious
Birth
Perverse
Poetry
Unfamiliar
Gives
Absurd
Beauty
Originals
Also
Opposite
Giving
Original
Illicit
Opposites
Perilous

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