Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
- Thomas Mann