Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other da… - Thomas Mann

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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

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About Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.

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Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

Beklemek ileriye doğru acele etmek,zamanı ve içinde bu anı bir armağan yerine bir engel gibi görmek,değerlerini yadsıyıp yok ederek zihninde üzerlerinden atlayıp geçmek demektir.Beklemek sıkıcıdır denir,oysa,büyük bir oranda zamanı kullanmadan ve deneyimlerinden geçmeden tüketmek eğlencelidir de.Hiçbir şey yapmadan bekleyen bir kişi,hiçbir yararı olmadan bir sürü şeyi sindirim sistemine yığan bir obura benzer diyebiliriz.Daha da ileriye giderek hazmedilmemiş gıdaların bir insanı daha güçlü yapmadığı gibi geçen zamanın insanı yaşlandırmadığını söyleyebiliriz.Zaten ari ve tam bekleme diye bir şey yoktur.

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