"Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness."
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"The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
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"Age and illness made one a dualist"
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"Health is just not valued until illness comes."
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"If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness."
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"Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious."
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"Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust."
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"I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb."
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"I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it."
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"Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels."
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"Death is in truth an illness from which we recover"
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"Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect."
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"As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption."
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"The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness."
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"For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting."
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"He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness."
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"His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased."
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"Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day."
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