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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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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
Capitalism
Showing
Accepting
Sympathy
Beauty
Paying
Penchant
Nature
Nearly
Aristocratic
Every
Creates
Wanton
Artistic
Treacherous
Injustice
Homage
Privilege
Innate

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