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Thomas Mann
“whoever tells a story wanders through many stations in his adventures, but only pitches a tent at each, waiting for further directions, and soon feels his own heart pounding, in part out of desire, but in part also out of fear and the apprehension in his bones, yet always as a sign that the road now opens onto new adventures that he must experience precisely, in all their incalculable detail, for that is the will of the restless spirit.”
Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers

Henrik Pontoppidan
“Every man’s soul is an independent universe, his death the extinction of the universe in miniature.”
Henrik Pontoppidan, Lykke-Per

Adolfo Bioy Casares
“When all the senses are synchronized, the soul emerges.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

Thomas Mann
“History is that which has happened and that which goes on happening in time. But it is also the stratified record upon which we set our feet, the ground beneath us, and the deeper the roots of our being go down into the layers that lie below and beyond the fleshly confines of our ego, yet at the same feed and condition it – so that in our moments of less precision we may speak of them in the first person and as though they were part of our flesh and blood experience – the heavier is our life with thought, the weightier is the soul of our flesh.”
Thomas Mann , Joseph and His Brothers

Thomas Mann
“But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal - yet another error, for beauty's secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”
Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
tags: beauty

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