Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all. (Thomas Mann)

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

Thomas Mann

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