Mann

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    I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    This longing for the bliss of the commonplace.
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    Was it an intellectual consequence of this ‘rebirth,’ of this new dignity and rigor, that, at about the same time, his sense of beauty was observed to undergo an almost excessive resurgence, that his style took on the noble purity, simplicity and symmetry that were to set upon all his subsequent works that so evident and evidently intentional stamp of the classical master.
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)