“Love as a force contributory to disease.”

—  Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain

The title of "Dr. Krokowski" lectures. Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

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