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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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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."
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"I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life."
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"Why should I have been surprised?Hunters walk the forestwithout a sound.The hunter, strapped to his rifle,the fox on his feet of silk,the serpent on his empire of muscles-all move in a stillness,hungry, careful, intent.Just as the cancerentered the forest of my body,without a sound."
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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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"I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water."
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"Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it."
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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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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
Life
"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
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"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
Creation
"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
Being
"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
Time
"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."
Excellence
"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."
Music
"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."
Life
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
Ethics
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
Time
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