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“But it can also happen (even in a society that applies itself to being the fairest and best designed for assuring the harmonious development of all its members: this may be stated as a certainty without any risk of being mistaken) that isolated, maladjusted, lonely individuals, morbidly attached to their childhood, withdrawn into themselves and cultivating a more or less conscious taste for a certain form of defeat, by giving in to an apparently useless obsession, succeed in digging up and laying bare a fragment of reality that is still unknown.”
Now reading: The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann