Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: I will let death have no mastery over my thoughts! For therein, and in nothing else, lies goodness and love of humankind.
“Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!”
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