A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction o…

Oliver Sacks
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2014). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic, p.20, Pan Macmillan
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