Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Er hatte wieder empfunden, wie wehe die Schönheit tut.

Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks

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Topic

Power of beauty Beauty

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

Buddenbrooks

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

Germany Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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Beauty will save the world.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Идиот [The Idiot]." The Russian Messenger, 1868–69.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

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Source
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Novalis. Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Berlin, 1802, pt. 2.

Current Citation

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We need in love to practice only this:
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Author

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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

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