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THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE
“And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?”
16 March 2013
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“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann
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