“The body, love, death, these three are just one.”

— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain

Hans Castorp to Chauchat, in French, Ch. 5
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Context: Rough translation of this passage written in French: The body, love, death, these three are just one. For the body, this is the disease and exquisite delight, and this that does die, yes, they are carnal both of them, love and death, and thus their terror and their great magic!

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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