"A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion."
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"He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life."
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"God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature."
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"We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal."
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"If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses"
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"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon"
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"You get sick of jokes, you know. Either I do them on TV, and then you worry, like, "Oh, everyone's gonna see it," so you chuck it, or you just get sick of saying it. After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding."
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"LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me."
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"I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul."
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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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"If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action."
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"It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired."
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"The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick."
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"I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again."
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"Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both."
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"My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead."
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"I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed."
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"Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings."
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"You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter."
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"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."
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