We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting. - Thomas Mann

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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

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About Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.

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...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

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Passionate — that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for the sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment. C'est ça. You don't realize what revolting egoism it is, and that one day it will make you the enemies of the human race.

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