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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
The terrors of suffering, sickness and death, of losing ourselves and losing the world, are the most elemental and intense we know; and so too are our dreams of recovery and rebirth, of being wonderfully restored to ourselves and the world.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
there is no necessary dilution of reality in representation; quite the opposite, if the representation has power. Reality is conferred, re-conferred, by every original representation.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
Leonard L., speaking for them all, wrote at the end of his autobiography: 'I am a living candle. I am consumed that you may learn. New things will be seen in the light of my suffering.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
there is a world of difference between complexity and anarchy. The weather is complex, it is not anarchic.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
Other worlds, other lives, even though so different from our own, have the power of arousing the sympathetic imagination, of awakening an intense and often creative resonance in others.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
The structure of chaos is not static but dynamic;
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin … with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
Awakening, basically, is a reversal of this: the patient ceases to feel the presence of illness and the absence of the world, and comes to feel the absence of his illness and the full presence of the world.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
Diseases have a character of their own, but they also partake of our character; we have a character of our own, but we also partake of the world's character: character is monadic or microcosmic, worlds within worlds within worlds, worlds which express worlds. The disease-the man-the world go together, and cannot be considered separately as things-in-themselves.
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
We rationalize, we dissimilate, we pretend: we pretend that modern medicine is a rational science, all facts, no nonsense, and just what it seems. But we have only to tap its glossy veneer for it to split wide open, and reveal to us its roots and foundations, its old dark heart of metaphysics, mysticism, magic, and myth. Medicine is the oldest of the arts, and the oldest of the sciences: would one not expect it to spring from the deepest knowledge and feelings we have?
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Oliver Sacks _ Awakenings
As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.-DONNE
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