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"Beauty can pierce one like pain."
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Thomas MannA great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. — Thomas Mann
"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
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Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stor
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"The important thing for me, then, is not the "work," but my life. Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life."
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"Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language."
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"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."
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"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."
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"Was it an intellectual consequence of this ‘rebirth,’ of this new dignity and rigor, that, at about the same time, his sense of beauty was observed to undergo an almost excessive resurgence, that his style took on the noble purity, simplicity and symmetry that were to set upon all his subsequent works that so evident and evidently intentional stamp of the classical master."
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