"he wanted to do, to be, to feel-……" — Oliver Sacks

"he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'."

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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…

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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you… — Paul Auster
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop… — Paul Auster
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and… — Karen Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working… — Mary Kay Ash
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel… — Mary Kay Ash
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation… — Julian Assange
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a… — David Attenborough

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