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“Weaknesses define you, drive new and original strategies to cover them, and they make you who you are. You don’t exist without them. Correcting the errors – seeing perfectly and objectively – is neither desirable nor possible.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“What Alice needed most then was a nice long holiday, and then perhaps institutionalization at some remote facility near the sea.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“How wonderful, truly, to have a friend whose silence you adored.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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