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May 7, 2007
a loner who seldom speaks
The observations and encounters of a loner who seldom speaks are both more nebulous and more penetrating than those of a gregarious man; his thoughts are more intense, more peculiar, and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions, which might easily be brushed aside with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy his mind unduly; they are deeper in silence, take on significance, become experience, adventure, emotion. Solitude ripens originality in us, bold and disconcerting beauty. But solitude also ripens the perverse, the asymmetrical, the absurd, the forbidden.
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Posted by amin at May 7, 2007 1:00 PM