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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. — Thomas Mann

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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

In the original German

Unser Sterben ist mehr eine Angelegenheit der Weiterlebenden als unserer selbst.

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain · 1924
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Death
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Time
1924
Person
Thomas Mann
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Current citation
Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.
Original citation
Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

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