"My main memories of my father are of his illness."
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"I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness."
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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."
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"Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age."
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"Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness."
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"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."
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"The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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"Any breakdown is a breakthrough."
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"I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something."
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"In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality."
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"Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible."
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"Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient."
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"A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life."
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"If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure"
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"Make sickness itself a prayer."
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"The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!"
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"The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses."
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"The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!"
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"It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness."
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"Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age."
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