“I am only able to live when my mind and my fancy are completely free; and this it is that memory of my years in prison actually less hateful to me than those of the ostensibly more honourable bond of slavery and fear which chafed my sensitive boyish soul when I was forced to attend at the ugly little white box of a school building down in the town. Add to these feelings of isolation from which I suffered, the grounds which I have set forth above, and it will surprise nobody that I early had the idea of taking more holidays than the law allowed.”
Thomas Mann, “Felix Krull”, 1911
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