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Thomas Mann

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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


#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.


— Thomas Mann


#creative-process #struggle #writers #writing #authority

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


— Thomas Mann


#love #reason #stronger #than

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.


— Thomas Mann


#beauty

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.


— Thomas Mann


#tolerance #crime

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.


— Thomas Mann


#respect

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.


— Thomas Mann


#cowardly #escape #only #peace #problems

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!


— Thomas Mann


#love #death

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.


— Thomas Mann


#love #philosophy #beauty

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.


— Thomas Mann


#music






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His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Goethe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. " Nietzsche's influence on Mann runs deep in his work especially in Nietzsche's views on decay and the proposed fundamental connection between sickness and creativity. In 1942 the Mann family moved to Pacific Palisades in west Los Angeles California where they lived until after the end of World War II.

Mann was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his own family in the novel Buddenbrooks. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Goethe Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. When Hitler came to power in 1933 Mann fled to Switzerland.

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