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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair."
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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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"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."
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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"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
"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."
Life
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
Life
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
Being
"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."
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"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
Time
"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
Creation
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
Gratitude
"Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world."
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