Did we not, at the very moment of birth, stumble into agonizing captivity? A prison, a prison with bars and chains everywhere! - Thomas Mann

For all men of violence, tyrants, those who seek to stupefy and stultify the masses, and all those who are intent upon turning a nation into an unthinking war-machine in order to control free and thinking citizens — these necessarily despise humanity.

And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

…But sometimes a person begins with opinions and judgments and valid criticisms, but then things creep in that have nothing to do with forming opinions, and then it’s all over with strict logic, and what you end up with is an absurd world republic and beautiful style.