“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”

—  Thomas Mann , book Tonio Kröger

Variant translation: It is strange. If an idea gains control of you, you will find it expressed everywhere, you will actually smell it in the wind.
As translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
Tonio Kröger (1903)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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