THOMAS MANN, Great German Novelist, Shortstory Writer, Essayist, Critic, Journalist. . . .et.al, Was Born This Day On June 06, 1875 In Lubeck, Germany.
Thomas Mann's Most Notable Works Are His Two Novels : 'THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN' & 'DEATH IN VENICE' !
But, Germans Love Mann's Earlier Novel, 'BUDDENBROOKS ' Most Favourably !
Symbolism Was His Mainstay And He Through It Gave Successfully The Psychological As Well As Sociological Edge !
Thomas Mann Won The NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE In 1929.
He Also Won Another Very Prestigious European Literary Prize, 'GOETHE AWARD' In 1949.
Mann Died At The Age of 80, In Zurich, Switzerland, On August 12, 1955 !
Today Thomas Mann Would Have Been 138 !
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Here Are Ten Quotes of THOMAS MANN In Celebration of His Birthday :-
(1.) ''Everything is politics.''
(2.) ''Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil !''
(3.) ''Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present?''
(4.) ''Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated !''
(5.) ''What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises !''
(6.) ''The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life !''
(7.) ''Speech is civilization itself.''
(8.) ''It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death !''
(9.) ''Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.''
(10.) ''A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.''
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