“That service he loved, had even almost come to love the enervating daily struggle between a proud, tenacious, well-tried will and this growing fatigue, which no on must suspect, nor the finished product betray by any faintest sign that his inspiration could ever flag or miss fire.”

“That service he loved, had even almost come to love the enervating daily struggle between a proud, tenacious, well-tried will and this growing fatigue, which no on must suspect, nor the finished product betray by any faintest sign that his inspiration could ever flag or miss fire.”

— Thomas Mann