Thomas Mann

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

art

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.

Thomas Mann

beauty

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

beauty

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

Thomas Mann

death

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

death

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

death

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

Thomas Mann

death

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

equality

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

Thomas Mann

family

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

freedom

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