Thomas Mann · Skopia

Quotes

9

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Buddenbrooks · 1901

★ 6.9

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century beings it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 6.0

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 · 1924

★ 5.2

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 3.5

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Books

2

The Magic Mountain

1924★ 9.1

Buddenbrooks

1901★ 8.0