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“... that I feel myself a naturalist and a physician both; and that I am equally interested in diseases and people; perhaps, too, that I am equally drawn to the scientific and romantic, and continually see both in the human condition, not least in that quintessential human condition of sickness- animals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Guards are of no use in a library.” Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Gwyn whispered, “I am the rock against which the surf crashes.” Nesta straightened at the words, as if they were a prayer and a summons. Gwyn lifted the blade. “Nothing can break me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames