Beauty can pierce one like a pain. — Thomas Mann

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

In the original German

Er hatte wieder empfunden, wie wehe die Schönheit tut.

Buddenbrooks · 1901
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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.
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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.