Thomas Mann. Doctor Faustus (№ 230251)

Never heard bigger nonsense than the assertion that only comes from sick sick. Life is indiscriminate, and morality her spit. She is brave enough a product of disease, consumes, digests it, and worth it just to learn, this is health. The fact of aliveness, my friend, negates all the difference between illness and health. A whole crowd, a whole generation susceptible, perfectly healthy young men pounced on opus ill genius, a genius in the power of disease, admires and praises, praises, carries away, in its own way changes him, makes known culture...