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

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