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Narrative Quotes by Oliver Sacks
- Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.
- If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.…
- To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect†ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative,…
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