Translation: What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps … - Thomas Mann

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Translation: What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.

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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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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Time drowns in the unmeasured monotony of space. Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Translation: What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to … - Thomas Mann

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