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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. but solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
-Thomas Mann
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Solitude Produces Originality, Bold And Astonishing Beauty,

Thomas Mann
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. but solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
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