“Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression…Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect.”
More from Thomas Mann
“One last thing. Hot girls destroy your life. That's just a fact.”
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”