Emily Zantuck
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Emily Zantuck
The less we understand about a disease or a symptom, the more we psychologize, and often stigmatize, it.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
In fact, between 1985 and 2005, roughly as many people died of tuberculosis as in World Wars I and II combined.
John Green • Everything Is Tuberculosis
‘we do not want to reckon with a world that is merely unfair, where some people get sick, not because they did something wrong, but because the world is simply unjust’ - john green
those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. this is a fault.
those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. for these there is hope.
‘the picture of dorian gray’ - oscar wilde