“What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!”

— Thomas Mann, book Confessions of Felix Krull

Bk. 1, Ch. 2
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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