Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
Thomas MannAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: June 6, 1875
- Died: August 12, 1955
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In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used to advise me to volunteer for the army, others to get a job in a pharmacy, and others in the telegraph department; now that I am over twenty-five, that grey hairs are beginning to show on my temples, and that I have been already in the army, and in a pharmacy, and in the telegraph department, it would seem that all earthly possibilities have been exhausted, and people have given up advising...
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