Thomas Mann Quote

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.


Ch. 4 - The Magic Mountain (1924)


One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.