Author of quotes: Thomas Mann. Page 8

There is no weirder and seculife relations than the relations of people who know each other only visually - they occur daily and hourly, each other watching, compelled, owing to customary rules or their own whim to maintain the appearance of indifference - neither bow nor word. Anxiety, excessive curiosity hovering between them, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, depressed unnatural needs in communication, in mutual understanding, but above all a kind of excited respect. for man loves and respects the other, as long as can not judge about it, and lovesickness - the consequence of insufficient knowledge.