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“Du gehst und gehst … du wirst von solchem Gange niemals zu rechter Zeit nach Hause zurückkehren, denn du bist der Zeit und sie ist dir abhanden gekommen.”
― Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg

“She always says that americans can understand spaniards. That they are the only two western nations that can realize abstraction. That in americans it expresses itself b disembodiedness, in literature and machinery, in Spain by ritual so abstract that it does not connect itself with anything but ritual.”
― Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“Der Mensch soll um der Güte und der Liebe willen
dem Tode keine Herrschaft einräumen
über seine Gedanken.”
― Thomas Mann

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden