Every artist is as bohemian as the deuce inside! Let him at least wear proper clothes and behave outwardly like a respectable being.
• p. 97
• p. 97
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Man ist als Künstler innerlich immer Abenteurer genug. Äußerlich soll man sich gut anziehen, zum Teufel, und sich benehmen wie ein anständiger Mensch.
— Eve on Tonio Kröger
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Man ist als Künstler innerlich immer Abenteurer genug. Äußerlich soll man sich gut anziehen, zum Teufel, und sich benehmen wie ein anständiger Mensch." in the context of "Every artist is as bohemian as the deuce inside! Let him at least wear proper clothes and behave outwardly like a respectable being.
• p. 97" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Tonio Kröger" (Quotes: as translated by H. Lowe-Porter in Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (1930))
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
About Eve
Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Classical Hebrew: Ḥawwāh, Modern Israeli Hebrew: Khavah, Arabic: حواء, Syriac: ܚܘܐ, Tigrinya: ሕይዋን? or Hiywan) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, in most Abrahamic traditions identified as the first woman. "Eve" in the Hebrew language is Ḥawwāh, meaning: "living one" or "source of life", and is related to ḥāyâ, "to live", derived from the Semitic root ḥyw.
About Eve
Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Classical Hebrew: Ḥawwāh, Modern Israeli Hebrew: Khavah, Arabic: حواء, Syriac: ܚܘܐ, Tigrinya: ሕይዋን? or Hiywan) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, in most Abrahamic traditions identified as the first woman. "Eve" in the Hebrew language is Ḥawwāh, meaning: "living one" or "source of life", and is related to ḥāyâ, "to live", derived from the Semitic root ḥyw.
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