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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

“It feels sympathy with the precipice, it is the precipice.”

Thomas Mann (spoken by Aschenbach, in reverie)

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

Portrait of Thomas Mann

Dozing by a cistern after eating overripe strawberries, Aschenbach addresses Phaedrus about knowledge and the artist's danger.

Citation: "It feels sympathy with the precipice, it is the precipice." — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter V, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q6)

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

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