Quotes from Tristan — Thomas Mann
1875–1955 Germany
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It often happens that an old family, with traditions that are entirely practical, sober and bourgeois, undergoes in its declining days a kind of artistic transfiguration.
Tristan (1902)
It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction.
Tristan (1902)
They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night's magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!
Tristan (1902)