Fever quotes
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"The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever."
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
"We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout."
"I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws."
"Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process."
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"Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love."
"Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever.""
"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."
"I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too."
"These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us."
"An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation."
"My love is as a fever, longing still."
"Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind."
"The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health."
"as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure"
"It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination."
"Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality."
"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever."
"Enthusiasm is the fever of reason."
"Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress."
"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body."
"Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease."
"Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever."
"There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that."
"The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last."
