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“Space, like time, gives birth to forgetfulness, but does so by removing an individual from all relationships and placing him in a free and pristine state--indeed, in but a moment it can turn a pedant and philistine into something like a vagabond. Time, they say, is water from the river Lethe, but alien air is a similar drink; and if its effects are less profound, it works all the more quickly.”

Thomas Mann
Book:The Magic Mountain
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“ბედნიერება იმაში კი არ არის, რომ უყვარდეთ; ეს გაძლევს მხოლოდ კმაყოფილების გრძნობას. იყო ბედნიერი - ნიშნავს გიყვარდეს, დაიჭირო წარმავალი, შესაძლოა მაცდური წამიერი გაელვებები, შენი სიყვარულის ობიექტის სიახლოვეს”

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Book:Tonio Kröger
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“Aschenbach noticed with astonishment the lad's perfect beauty. His faced recalled the noblest moment of Greek sculpture—pale, with a sweet reserve, with clustering honey-coloured ringlets, the brow and nose descending in one line, the winning mouth, the expression of pure and godlike serenity. Yet with all this chaste perfection of form it was of such unique personal charm that the observer though he had never seen, either in nature or art, anything so utterly happy and consummate.”

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Book:Death in Venice and Other Stories
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“Sun and sea air could not burn his skin, it was the same creamy marble hue as at first—though he did look a little pale, either from the cold or in the bluish moonlight of the arc-lamps. The shapely brows were so delicately drawn, the eyes so deeply dark—lovelier he was than words could say, and as often the thought visited Aschenbach, and brought its own pang, that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”

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Book:Death in Venice and Other Stories
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“The sight of that dear form was unexpected, it had appeared unhoped-for, without giving him time to compose his features. Joy, surprise, and admiration might have painted themselves quite openly upon his face - and just at this second it happened that Tadzio smiled. Smiled at Aschenbach, unabashed and friendly, a speaking, winning, captivating smile, with slowly parting lips. With such a smile it might be that Narcissus bent over the mirroring pool, a smile profound, infatuated, lingering, as he put out his arms to the reflection of his own beauty; the lips just slightly pursed, perhaps half-realizing his own folly in trying to kiss the cold lips of his shadow—with a mingling of coquetry and curiosity and a faint unease, enthralling and enthralled.”

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Book:Death in Venice and Other Stories
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“მოძრაობა, რომელიც დღეს ცნობილია როგორც ნაციონალ-სოციალიზმი და რომელმაც დაამტკიცა თავისი დიდი მიმზიდველი ძალა, შერწყმულია ექსცენტრიული ბარბაროსობის და პრიმიტიულად დემოკრატიული ბაზრული უხეშობის ძლიერ ტალღასთან, რამაც წალეკა მთელი სამყარო”

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“ტოლსტოი იასნაია პოლიანადან სიკვდილს გაექცა, რადგან იგრძნო, რომ მიქელ გაბრიელმა მოაკითხაო. გაექცა, მაგრამ მას სიკვდილი გზაში, რკინიგზის ერთ პატარა სადგურში მაინც დაეწია.”

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Author:Thomas Mann
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