Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.Thomas Mann
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
For the sake of goodness and love, Man shall let Death have No sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
The juxtaposition of the spending cuts and tax cuts can prove really quite damaging to the Republican Party. The more they are held up together, the more difficult it becomes to make the sale for the Republicans.
Thomas Mann
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