The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds

Oliver Sacks
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The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2014). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic, p.111, Pan Macmillan
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