“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”

— Thomas Mann , book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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