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Politics has been called the "art of the possible," and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, critic. first complete publication as Deutschland und die Deutschen in "Die Neue Rundschau," Stockholm, Heft 1, Oct. 1945. Germany and the Germans, p. 58, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Library of Congress (1963).

Thomas Mann delivered this address in the Library of Congress, May 29, 1945.

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