"There lay the little miracle among the pillows: so well formed, so encompassed, as it were, with the harmony of sweet proportions, with little hands that even then, though so much tinier, were beautiful as now; with wide-open eyes blue as the sky and brighter than the sunshine-and almost in that very second he felt himself captured and held fast."

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Thomas Mann was a German novelist and essayist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Born in Lübeck on 1875-06-06, he wrote major works including Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain. He died near Zürich on 1955-08-12.

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