Thomas Mann
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictious word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.
—Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924
Posted on June 14, 1999 at 11:21 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
Posted on July 31, 2003 at 6:19 AM
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