he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wa…

Oliver Sacks
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he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2014). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic, p.43, Pan Macmillan
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The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of oth … ▶
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2013). Seeing Voices, Vintage
Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2014). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic, p.42, Pan Macmillan
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2011). Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, p.12 … ▶
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he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2014). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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