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• Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

  Frantz Fanon

  Europe, Two, America

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a knee on the bench she'd been sitting on and reached over the back to close her hand on Asil's wrist, which was lying across the back of the pew. He hissed in shock but didn't pull away. As she held him the scent of wilderness, of sickness, faded. He stared at her, the whites of his eyes showing brightly while his irises narrowed to small bands around his black pupil. "Omega," he whispered, his breath coming harshly.

  Patricia Briggs

  Lying, Eye, Hands

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• Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

  Paul Bowles

  Men, Hegemony, Illness

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Loss, Feelings, Quality

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Victim, Barren

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.516, Anchor

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• I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Eye, Cutting, Healthy

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.113, Modern Library

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• What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Children, Doctors

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.16, Penguin

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• The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

  Brigham Young

  Dog, Men, Disease And Death

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• Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

  Nora Roberts

  Gone

  Nora Roberts (1997). “The Stanislaski Sisters”, Harlequin Books

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• Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Names, Sorrow

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• I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing

  Francine Rivers

  Light, Honor, Promise

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• So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

  Lauren Beukes

  Twelve, Cracks, Ems

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

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• We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

  John R. Rice

  War, Crime, Bigs

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• I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Knowing, Kind

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• Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Blood, Long

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Fighting, White

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• I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

  Tori Spelling

  Morning, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Morning, Night, Sick

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

  Dirk Benedict

  Pulse, Males, Benches

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• I am so addicted to crystals, it’s like a sickness. I’ve spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left.

  Spencer Pratt

  Night, Years, Lasts

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• As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Insult, Imagine

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

  Lydia Lunch

  Hurt, Sex, Healing

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• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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