“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”
— Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
From Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice, exploring the inner life of an artist who sacrifices connection for intellectual intensity.
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