“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R. I. P.”

— Thomas Mann , book The Magic Mountain

requiescat in pace — you know. That seems to me the most beautiful expression — I like it much better than ‘He is a jolly good fellow,’ which is simply rowdy.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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