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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

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Thomas Mann
Age: 80 †
Born: 1875
Born: June 6
Died: 1955
Died: August 12
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
University Teacher
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Hanseatic City of Lübeck
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Love
Conscious
Joyous
Life
Understood
Everlasting
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Unexpected
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Unknown
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