“An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.”
Guldstad
Love's Comedy (1862)
“Passionate — that means to live for the sake of living.”
— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain (1924)
Context: Passionate — that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for the sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment. C'est ça. You don't realize what revolting egoism it is, and that one day it will make you the enemies of the human race.
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