Aryeh

“What’s the point of quantity for quantity’s sake? Far better to aim for quality. The same critique that’s been made so many times since the industrial revolution and the advent of mass production. Saying ‘We should all make lots of friends’ is basically the same as saying ‘We should try to be the kind of people who don’t cause any friction and can more or less get along with everyone.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, The Mantis

“We have lost something. In 1892 the Canadian William Osler, one of the greatest physicians of all time, suspected rheumatoid arthritis—a condition related to scleroderma—to be a stress-related disorder. Today rheumatology all but ignores that wisdom, despite the supporting scientific evidence accumulated in the 110 years since Osler first published his text.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress – The International Bestseller

“The villages he’d played in were all around us, bright and leafy in the sunshine, nests of stars in the night sky.”
― Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires

“At the beginning, when they thought that it was a sickness like any other, religion had its place. But when they saw that it was serious, they remembered pleasure.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague