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THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE

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“And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?”
— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

THOMAS MANN ~ ON SOLITUDE

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

Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)

THOMAS MANN ~ ON WRITING

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“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann

THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE

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“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

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