“They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!”

— Thomas Mann , book Tristan

Source: Tristan (1902), Ch. 8

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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