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Aliona Ciurcă

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“Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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“...сопротивление необходимо в любом случае, даже в безнадёжной на вид ситуации.”
― Ян Гийу, Ondskan

tags: resistance

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“Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’ René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

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“Each person is an instrument of the Divine, composing cosmic symphonies while on earth.”
― Annie Kagan, The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death

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