Cholera Quotes

• The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

  Giacomo Meyerbeer

  New Year, Years, Heaven

  Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier (1999). “The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Broken, Dying

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.148, U of Nebraska Press

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• Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Rereading

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• People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Intelligent, Men

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Men, Generous Man

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• "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Museums

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Asia

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• People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• There is always something left to love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Romantic, I Hate You

  "Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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  The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Regret, Dying

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

  Javier Bardem

  Reality, Essence, Age

  "Fictional character: Florentino Ariza". "Love in the Time of Cholera", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspiring, Memories, Heart

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• This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

  Emanuel Azenberg

  Heart, Common, Cold

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• There is no greater glory than to die for love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Glory, Greater

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Mean, Thinking

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Important, Literature, Remember

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Life, What Matters, Inspire

  "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sex, Wall, Women

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.626, Penguin UK

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