What is uttered is finished and done with.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.Thomas Mann
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.
Thomas Mann
Some of the men stood talking in this room, and at the right of the door a little knot had formed round a small table, the center of which was the mathematics student, who ws eagerly talking. He had made the assertion that one could draw through a given point more than one parallel to a straight line Frau Hagenstrom had cried out that this was impossible, and he had gone on to prove it so conclusively that his hearers were constrained to behave as though they understood.
Thomas Mann
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word
Thomas Mann
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
Thomas Mann
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