Quote by Thomas Mann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar a

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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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. – Emily Prager

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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. – Gustav Mahler

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. – Garth Brooks

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