German - Writer | June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955
Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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