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Thomas Mann

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.


— Thomas Mann


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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.


— Thomas Mann


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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.


— Thomas Mann


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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.


— Thomas Mann


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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.


— Thomas Mann


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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.


— Thomas Mann


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


— Thomas Mann


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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.


— Thomas Mann


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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.


— Thomas Mann


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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?


— Thomas Mann


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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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