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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. – Thomas Mann

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann

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