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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool. For amid that unique suffering
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Any major illness transforms a patient’s—really, an entire family’s—life. But brain diseases have the additional strangeness of the esoteric.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The less we understand about a disease or a symptom, the more we psychologize, and often stigmatize, it.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
sublimity but never in the passions of the human heart. Has any great poem ever let in so little light upon one’s own joys and sorrows? I get no help in judging life; I scarcely feel that Milton lived or knew men and women; except for the peevish personalities about marriage and the woman’s duties.