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Thomas Mann

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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


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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.


— Thomas Mann


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


— Thomas Mann


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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.


— Thomas Mann


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It could become much worse.


— Thomas Mann


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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.


— Thomas Mann


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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.


— Thomas Mann


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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.


— Thomas Mann


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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.


— Thomas Mann


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Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.


— 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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