Sameer Verma

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.”
― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

“Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.”
― Thomas Mann

“Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain