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For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
German writer
1875 - 1955
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
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.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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