Illness


What Does It Feel Like?
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Maid for Advertising
If Tomorrow Never Comes
32 Days in May
The Wrong Husband (Marriage by Contract, #1)
An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak (Heartsong, #1)
Small Rain
A Good Book (Sunday Morning, #3)
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
Sin With Me (Sugarland Creek #5)
Over My Dead Body
Gender Theory
Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden
Eastern Lights (Compass, #2)
The Fault in Our Stars
Everything, Everything
My Sister's Keeper
Five Feet Apart
When Breath Becomes Air
A Monster Calls
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Still Alice
Ghosts
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Extraordinary Means
The Bell Jar
Before I Die
Turtles All the Way Down

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Susan Sontag
Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

Thomas Bernhard
Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing. ...more
Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

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