An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. (Sholem Asch)

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

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