“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!”

—  Thomas Mann , book Confessions of Felix Krull

Bk. 2, Ch. 4
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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