“Beauty can pierce one like pain.”

— Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman], Pt 11, Ch. 2

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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