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“Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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“Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

tags: human-spirit, philosophy, science

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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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