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Quote from Thomas Mann,


"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact – it is silence which isolates."


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Thomas Mann (more quotes by Thomas Mann or books by/about Thomas Mann)


(1875-1955) German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1929)

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The Magic Mountain

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Speech

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