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“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.”
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“Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.”
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“All women are misfits, I think; we do not fit into this world without amputations.”
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“Mark wasn't interested in others and their affairs. His favourite word was 'I,' with 'me' a close second.”
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“Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?”
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“Allegra made them all welcome, and in turn she bloomed in her own hospitality.”
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“Love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”
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“... the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”