We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.


The Magic Mountain (1924) ch. 6, sect. 8 (translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

Thomas Mann Quotes

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do ...

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do ...

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do ...

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do ...