What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann
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- An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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