Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present — Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

— Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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