"I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill."

-- Father Damien

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“A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.”
“I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.”
“When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.”
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
“Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.”
“All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”
“Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.”

Source : DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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