#thomass mann

[meister-isegrim]

Es ist schwer, es zugleich den Leuten und der Wahrheit zurecht zu machen

Thomas Mann

[vererun]

I lie here and make love with a divine and yet quite common servant boy. How delightfully that degrades me. My name is Diane. But you, with your lips, call me whore, explicitly. "You sweet whore!'" 'Armand,' she whispered in my ear, 'be rough with me! I am entirely yours, I am your slave! Treat me as you would the lowest wench! I don't deserve anything else, and it would be heaven for me!'. . . 'Listen, Armand.' 'What is it?' 'How would it be if you beat me? Beat me hard, I mean. Me, Diane Philbert? It would serve me right, I would be grateful to you. These are your suspenders, take them, love, turn me over and whip me till I bleed!

from Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann

[rahatsizbacaksendromu]

Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family