Karl Kraus Quotes
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
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When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.
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I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
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There is no illness of the body except for the mind.
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
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I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.
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I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
