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"With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."
- Sontag, Susan

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11155/">With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6851/">Sontag, Susan</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/disease/">Disease</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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