Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.


The Thomas Mann Reader (ed. New York, Knopf, 1950)

Thomas E. Mann Quotes

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.