And this disease that was Swann's love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swann's habits, to all his acts, to ...his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science ... has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom to... use nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane ...instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;... Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lights... are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by whi...ch the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standin...g on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days--whatever there may be for the d...ust--the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by... believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »