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“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, for things that are not to be remedied.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“the question is not how to get cured, but how to live.” Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
“Well, quoth Friar John, as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Those whom life does not cure death will.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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