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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

“In the light of the sweet youthfulness which had done this to him, he detested his aging body.”

Thomas Mann (spoken by Narrator)

Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925)

Portrait of Thomas Mann

Just before Aschenbach's visit to the hotel barber, who dyes his hair and paints his face.

Citation: "In the light of the sweet youthfulness which had done this to him, he detested his aging body." — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q5)

Portrait: Thomas Mann 1929, Nobel Foundation, Public domain.

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