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“This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and be your own doctor or emergency treatments and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.”
—Antonio Gramsci (18911937)
“I cannot yet begin to understand
Why we are proud that an ancestor knew
The crazy Poe, who was not of our kind
Bats in the belfry that round and round flew
In vapors not quite wholesome for the mind.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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