“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

— Thomas Mann , book Tonio Kröger

"Tonio Kröger" on general opinions about artists.
Tonio Kröger (1903)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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