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Thomas Mann

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.


— Thomas Mann


#mastery #order #simplification #steps #subject

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.


— Thomas Mann


#how

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


— Thomas Mann


#decent #die #family #heard #i

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.


— Thomas Mann


#get #had #i #need #rest

Speech is civilization itself.


— Thomas Mann


#itself #speech

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.


— Thomas Mann


#dwelling #edifice #foundation #freer #freudian

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


— Thomas Mann


#life #only #parcel #part #religious

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.


— Thomas Mann


#being #consists #idea #make #out

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.


— Thomas Mann


#emotion #joy #thought #wholly #writer

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.


— Thomas Mann


#far #gentlemen #going #her #i






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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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