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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.
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  2. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ The Last Day of a Condemned

    The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
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  5. George Saunders _ Tenth of December

    Did he still want it? Did he still want to live?Yes, yes, oh, God, yes, please.Because, O.K., the thing was-he saw it now, was starting to see it-if some guy, at the end, fell apart, and said or did bad things, or had to be helped, helped to quite a considerable extent? So what? What of it? Why should he not do or say weird things or look strange or disgusting? Why should the shit not run down his legs? Why should those he loved not lift and bend and feed and wipe him, when he would gladly do the same for them? He'd been afraid to be lessened by the lifting and bending and feeding and wiping, and was still afraid of that, and yet, at the same time, now saw that there could still be many-many drops of goodness, is how it came to him-many drops of happy-of good fellowship-ahead, and those drops of fellowship were not-had never been-his to withheld.Withhold.
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  6. Richard Matheson _ I Am Legend and Other Stories

    She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was annoyed by sickness. She seemed to regard it as a personal affront.
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  7. Mercedes Lackey _ Arrow's Flight

    I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
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  8. Tamora Pierce _ Briar's Book

    Sometimes there's nothing you can do. {...} Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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  9. Fulton J. Sheen _ Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom

    Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual's conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it even reduces his capacity for sin, his opportunities for vice. In that enforced detachment from evil, which is a Mercy of God, he has time to search himself, to appraise his life, to interpret it in terms of larger reality. He considers God, and, at that moment, there is a sense of duality, a confronting of personality with Divinity, a comparison of the facts of his life with the ideal from which he fell. The soul is forced to look inside itself, to inquire whether there is more peace in this suffering than in sinning. Once a sick man, in his passivity, begins to ask, "What is the purpose of my life? Why am I here?" the crisis has already begun. Conversion becomes possible the very moment a man ceases to blame God or life and begins to blame himself; by doing so, he becomes able to distinguish between his sinful barnacles and the ship of his soul. A crack has appeared in the armor of his egotism; now the sunlight of God's grace can pour in. But until that happens, catastrophes can teach us nothing but despair.
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  10. Nicholas Sparks _ The Last Song

    Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
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  11. Edith Wharton _ Old New York: Four Novellas

    The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it more distinguished than the Sillerton gout, and far more refined than the Wesson liver; and it had permitted most of them to survive, in valetudinarian ease, to a ripe old age, when they died of some quite other disorder. But Charles Hazeldean had defied it, and it took its revenge, and took it savagely.
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  12. Michael Cunningham _ The Hours

    I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?
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