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Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can also easily make fools of us all.

Doctors, I tell my trainers with a laugh, can’t suffer enough.

Full of youthful melodrama I see myself as living in a world as red as blood and as white as snow.

“Perhaps they never quite realized just how dangerous the operation had been and how lucky they were to have recovered so well. Whereas the surgeon, for a while, has known heaven, having come very close to hell. “