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Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 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 novel and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. ... full article at wikipedia

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Jun 6, 1875

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Lübeck

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Technical University of Munich
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

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Aug 12, 1955

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Zürich

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Death in Venice	Mar 1, 1971
Les têtes interverties
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Tonio Kröger	0826409717
The Holy Sinner	0520076710
The Holy Sinner	0520076729
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Adrian Leverkühn

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1929	Nobel Prize in Literature	Budddenbrooks	"principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature"
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