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One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann
Idea
Illness
Man
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann
Equality
Society
Ideas
Democracy
Fact
Freedom
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
Idea
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Thomas Mann
End
Rest
Sleep
Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann
Politics