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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
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"Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura."
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"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."
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"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
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"ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh."
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"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."
Truth
"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."
Work
"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
Life
"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
Love
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
Life
"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
Life
"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
Creation
"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
Faith
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