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I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

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He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books...

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One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...

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Susan SontagIllness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from ...

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from thei...

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I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come ...

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They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infect...

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On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...

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I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to fi...

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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

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No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a ver...

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Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it—foam, ...

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