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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

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NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

3.0 · 43 votes · 188 reads

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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

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NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

3.2 · 54 votes

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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

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NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

3.1 · 62 votes

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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

4.0 · 51 votes

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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

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Charles Caleb Colton

AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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Teresa of Calcutta

MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

3.9 · 36 votes · 130 reads

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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

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George Santayana

PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

4.6 · 27 votes · 107 reads

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

3.5 · 60 votes

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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blig

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NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

4.3 · 48 votes

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