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“The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.”

Thomas Mann · Death

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Thomas Mann

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

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Thomas Mann

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.

Beauty

Thomas Mann

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Time

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

History