It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we…

Marcel Proust
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ✨ Marcel Proust (1941). Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way
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