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"you return from lands equally distant and you can tell me only the thoughts that come to a man who sits on his doorstep at evening to enjoy the cool air. What is the use, then, of all your traveling?"
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Please don’t misunderstand me. These medications can be lifesaving tools and I’m grateful to have them in clinical practice. But there is a cost to medicating away every type of human suffering, and as we shall see, there is an alternative path that might work better: embracing pain.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
But he believed his richly human case histories were no less important than his great neuropsychological treatises. Luria’s endeavor—to combine the classical and the romantic, science and storytelling—became my own, and his “little book,” as he always called it (The Mind of a Mnemonist is only a hundred and sixty small pages), altered the focus and direction of my life, by serving as an exemplar not only for Awakenings but for everything else I was to write.
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