A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or… — Thomas Mann
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
In the original German
Der Mensch lebt nicht nur sein persönliches Leben als Einzelwesen, sondern, bewußt oder unbewußt, auch das seiner Epoche und Zeitgenossenschaf.
The Magic Mountain · 1924
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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.
Original citation
Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.