Thomas Mann - Confessions of Felix Krull (1954)

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

Thomas Mann

Our capacity for disgust, let me observe, is in proportion to our desires; that is in proportion to the intensity of our attachment to the things of this world.

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Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

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What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!

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The intellect longs for the delights of the non-intellect, that which is alive and beautiful dans sa stupidité.

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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

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