Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite,.... : Quote by Thomas Mann

“ Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. ”

Thomas Mann
  • From : Death in Venice and Other Tales
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