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

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

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  It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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  Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to a

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  The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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  It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some exten

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

• Thomas Mann:

  There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivoca

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  If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

• Thomas Mann:

  An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech