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Herr Albin is a resident of the Berghof. He’s a bit of a rabblerouser—early in Hans’s stay, he overhears Herr Albin antagonizing several female patients, playfully (but effectively) intimidating them with his knife and threatening to retrieve his revolver from his room. Herr Albin insists that his illness should excuse his poor behavior, and this justification lays the foundation for Hans’s later musings about illness, death, and suffering as sources of great dignity and freedom. It’s Herr Albin who provides the revolvers for Settembrini and Naphta’s duel toward the end of the novel.
Herr Albin Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Herr Albin or refer to Herr Albin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapter 8: Herr Albin
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On the whole, however, it seemed to him that although honor had its advantages, so, too, did disgrace, and that indeed the advantages of the latter were almost boundless. He tried putting himself in Herr Albin’s shoes and imagining how it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace—and the young man was terrified by a sense of dissolute sweetness that set his heart pounding even faster for a while.
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Herr Albin Quotes in The Magic Mountain
The The Magic Mountain quotes below are all either spoken by Herr Albin or refer to Herr Albin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 3, Chapter 8: Herr Albin
Quotes
On the whole, however, it seemed to him that although honor had its advantages, so, too, did disgrace, and that indeed the advantages of the latter were almost boundless. He tried putting himself in Herr Albin’s shoes and imagining how it must be when one is finally free of all the pressures honor brings and one can endlessly enjoy the unbounded advantages of disgrace—and the young man was terrified by a sense of dissolute sweetness that set his heart pounding even faster for a while.
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