"Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves."

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Source : Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.163, Vintage

Italo Svevo

#Mirrors Quotes #People Quotes #Sick Quotes

“That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.”
“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.”
“I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.”
“He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.”
“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”
“The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.”
“The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]”
“I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.”

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