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QUOTES ON ILLNESS

A Man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he love you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

LAUREN BACALL, Lauren Bacall By Myself

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

MARCEL PROUST, "The Guermantes Way," Remembrance of Things Past

Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, King Lear

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Sermons


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