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THOMAS MANN ~ ON SOLITUDE
28 August 2011
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
Thomas Mann (Death in Venice)
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