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“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when all this ends. For the moment I know this; there are sick people and they need curing.” Albert Camus, The Plague

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.” Heraclitus, On Nature

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Letters to a Young Poet (2)
The Plague (1)
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On Nature (1)
What's Wrong with the World (1)
The Bell Jar (1)