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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
“a delicate self-mastery by which any inner deterioration, any biological decay was kept concealed from the eyes of the world”
Death in Venice, Chapter II, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925)
Part of the description of the heroes of Aschenbach's fiction, which also describes Aschenbach himself.
Citation: "a delicate self-mastery by which any inner deterioration, any biological decay was kept concealed from the eyes of the world" — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter II, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q2)
Portrait: Thomas Mann 1929, Nobel Foundation, Public domain.
