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Quotation by Thomas Mann
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Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, maltreatment, domination. The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Lotte in Weimar, Fischer (1939). Goethe, in The Beloved Returns, ch. 7, p. 304, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Knopf (1940).
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