It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. (Thomas Mann)

It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction.

Thomas Mann

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