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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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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…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
— William S. Burroughs
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if…
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However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may…
— Herman Melville
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Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing…
— Pope Francis
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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
— Sophocles
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