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title: "2 Siddartha Mukherjee Quotes"
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# Siddartha Mukherjee

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##  Quotes by Siddartha Mukherjee

> [“This image—of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelgänger—is so haunting because it is at least partly true. A cancer cell is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddartha-mukherjee/this-image-of-cancer-as-our-desperate-malevolent-contemporary-doppelg/)

[Siddartha Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddartha-mukherjee/)

[Cancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cancer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a50/siddartha-mukherjee-89656_cancer_this-image-of-cancer-as-our-desperate-ma_356434.jpg)

> [“It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddartha-mukherjee/it-is-an-old-complaint-about-the-practice-of-medicine-that-it-inures/)

[Siddartha Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddartha-mukherjee/)

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/siddartha-mukherjee-89656_death_it-is-an-old-complaint-about-the-practic_1594675.jpg)

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