“The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”

—  Thomas Mann, book Death in Venice

Source: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 4, as translated by David Luke

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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