Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a German novelist whose works 'Buddenbrooks,' 'The Magic Mountain,' 'Death in Venice,' and 'Doctor Faustus' made him the preeminent German-language novelist of the twentieth century. His Nobel Prize (1929) recognized his epic portrayals of bourgeois decline and the tensions between art and life.
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