"The arctic loneliness of age."

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Source : Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)

Silas Weir Mitchell

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“No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.”
“I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.”
“It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.”
“What I have a problem with, is this big worldwide synchronization, this big worldwide oneness, where everybody is just like the same person. I couldn't tell you when, was the last time I met an individual.”
“On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: â€œAn unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'â€”
“Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.”

Source : Anita Brookner (1985). “Look at me”, Plume
“Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.”
“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”

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