"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
-Thomas Mann
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"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.“
-Thomas Mann
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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
-Thomas Mann
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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
-Thomas Mann
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
-Thomas Mann
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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
-Thomas Mann
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"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
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"All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring."
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"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion."
-Isaac Albeniz
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