“Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!”

—  Thomas Mann

Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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