“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.”

— Thomas Mann , book The Magic Mountain

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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