"Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others."

-- Suzanne Curchod

#Sympathy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Casts Quotes

“In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.”
“For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.”
“A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.”
“Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.”
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”
“Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.”
“But I never gave up personal things to work, never.”
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”

Source : Erich Segal (2015). “Doctors: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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