Top Highlights

• He sat completely still, altogether unseen, in his lofty place and looked inside himself.
• For, one person loves and honors another only as long as he is unable to assess him, and yearning is a result of a lack of knowledge.
• He was more beautiful than words can say, and Aschenbach felt painfully, as he had often done, that words are able to praise physical beauty but not to reproduce it.
• He too had served, he too had been a soldier and warrior, like many of them—for art was a war, an exhausting struggle, which people nowadays were unable to keep up for very long.
• After all, we are only as old as our mind and heart feel, and in certain circumstances gray hair can be a greater untruth than the correction of it,