Quotation by Thomas Mann

Our air up here is good for the disease—I mean good against the disease,... but it is also good for the disease.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Der Zauberberg, Fischer (1924). The Magic Mountain, ch. 4, p. 181, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, The Modern Library, McGraw-Hill (1955).

Hofrat Behrens' equivocal praise of his sanatorium.
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