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"Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time; which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course." THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN |
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| "A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries." THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN |
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| "A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own." THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN |
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| "DER ZAUBERBERG" (THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN) is a great book (though painful to read). I've always been tempted to write a parody of it and rename the main character, Hans Castorp, Heinz Catsup. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN |
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| 1875 - 1955 Nobel Prize: 1929 |
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| POSTSCRIPT "A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." from DEATH IN VENICE, THOMAS MANN |
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