“Six months at most after they get here, these young people — and they are mostly young who come — have lost every idea they had, except flirtation and temperature.”

Settembrini on the Magic Mountain Society, in Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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