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Don’t separate the mind from the body. Don’t separate even character - you can’t. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It’s up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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The thing that circumscribes life for almost all of us is not war, but disease. […] We’re going to have to find our heroism and our well lived lives in very small little ways… in taking care of each other and in taking care of ourselves.

John Green on 18th January 2012, Indian Springs High School (but channelled through the magical Internet!)