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“ ”What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
About Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
a noble and active mind blunts itself against nothing so quickly as the sharp and bitter irritant of knowledge. And certain it is that the youth's constancy of purpose, no matter how painfully conscientious, was shallow beside the mature resolution of the master of his craft, who made a right-about-face, turned his back on the realm of knowledge, and passed it by with averted face, lest it lame his will or power of action, paralyse his feelings or his passions, deprive any of these of their conviction or utility.
To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?