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Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero

Laurence J. Peter
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

Erasmus
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
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Jorge Luis Borges
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis Borges

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