O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes. - Thomas Mann

It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them — but

Dr. Krokowski answered his own question, and said: “In the form of illness. Symptoms of disease are nothing but a disguised manifestation of the power of love; and all disease is only love transformed.

In effect it seemed to him that, though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior: advantages, even, that were well-nigh boundless in their scope.