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Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German Writer

Born: Jun 6, 1875

Died: Aug 12, 1955

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann

Truth Truth Is Lie Better Harmful Than Useful

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

War Peace Problems Cowardly Only Escape

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

People Writing Somebody Difficult Other More Writer Than Whom

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. Thomas Mann

Man Once Once More Those Solitary Mental More Sees He Feels Unused Than Articulate Intense Gregarious Experiences Which Speaking Less

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. Thomas Mann

Love Sometimes Qualities Well Persons Reason Defects

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. Thomas Mann

Life Best Good Man Mouth Nothing Best Part Touch Never Part Perfectly Safe Him Smoke Understand How His Anyone Literally

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

Positive Simple Meet Triumph More Poised Adverse Adverse Conditions Conditions Than Gracefully Endurance Against Act Aggression Fatality

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann

Life Art Language Will Degree Judgment Medium Critical High Critique Names Always Passes Itself Creates Show Creativeness Whose Speech

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. Thomas Mann

Human Being Every Moderate Human Being Should Reasonable Socialist

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann

Fight No Chance Opinions Survive Cannot Them Chance

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

Music Saying Nature Insist Too Once About Something Shall She Gentlemen Suspect Going Politically Suspicious Far Her

What is uttered is finished and done with. Thomas Mann

Finished Done Uttered

It could become much worse. Thomas Mann

Become Worse Could Much

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now. Thomas Mann

Think Thinking Long-Term Anyone Now

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

Family Rich Respectable Heard Die Decent Poor Should Means

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

Joy Thought Become Emotion Writer Wholly

Speech is civilization itself. Thomas Mann

Civilization Itself Speech

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

World Word Thought Changed Magic Vehicle Been Anything Ever Save

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann

Miserable Broke Out Hysterical Mass Reduced German Romanticism Barbarism Level

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