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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course… — Thomas Mann

Novel

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

In the original German

Das kuhlt, das klart, dem zuge der stunden halt eine bestimmte Gemutsverfassung nicht ungewandelt stand.

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain · 1924
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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.
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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

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