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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
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
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