"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."

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"In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."

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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."

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"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

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"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."

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"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

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"I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure."

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"True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know."

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