Thứ Tư, 21 tháng 5, 2014

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Life Quotes And Sayings by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

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