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. (Thomas Mann)

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.

Thomas Mann

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