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“Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.”

“Cancer: the code breaks down, becomes disorganized, lets cells proliferate indiscriminately. A disease of information. AIDS: the immune system (the secret defences of the body) is suppressed. Obsessive fear of contiguity, of flows (sperm, blood, saliva), of contact. A disease of communication. What if all this reflected a brute, instinctive refusal of the flows of communic ation, of sperm, of sex, of words? If there were in all this an 'instinctive', vital resistance to the extension of flows and circuits - at the cost of a new mortal pathology, AIDS and cancer, which would ultimately be protecting us from something even more serious, or would at least be serving as an alarm signal? After all, neurosis is what man invents to protect him from madness.”

“Cancer treatment didn’t take your beauty, your identity or anything else. Yes, going through that trauma changed you but, contrary to what you may believe right now, it didn’t change you for the worse – it changed you for the better.”

“Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.”

“Cancer, we have discovered, is stitched into our genome. Oncogenes arise from mutations in essential genes that regulate the growth of cells. Mutations accumulate in these genes when DNA is damaged by carcinogens, but also by seemingly random errors in copying genes when cells divide. The former might be preventable, but the latter is endogenous. Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. We can rid ourselves of cancer, then, only as much as we can rid ourselves of the processes in out physiology that depend on growth-aging, regeneration, healing, reproduction.”

“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”

“Canción de Naskar (Abisoneto 331) No necesitas corona para andar por tu camino, no necesitas trono para vivir con dignidad. Os digo, sin soberbia, sin reputación, escúchame: el dolor es el camino, la herida es la calma. La benevolencia es más grande que la bandera, la humanidad es la nacionalidad última. Las manos que ayudan son más santas que los labios que oran, no necesito las Escrituras, pues mi corazón es mi razón. No tengo ley, sino vida - no tengo edicto, sino empatía. No tengo credo, sino conciencia - soy el voto loco de inclusividad. Los caminos encendidos por la voz de la unidad no pueden ser extinguidos por nubes de odio. Desde los callejones del dolor hasta las torres del orgullo, estoy herido, camino con los heridos a mi lado.”

“Cand pierd increderea in cineva pana atunci apropiat, el se transforma, brusc, la fel ca in basme, in cel mai strain dintre straini: nu ma mai intereseaza sa-l inteleg. Prietenia este o stare magica si incontrolabila, la fel ca iubirea. Iti daruiesti fiinta interioara celuilalt si pe urma, brusc, incerci sa te recuperezi, dar o parte din tine va ramane, din pacate sau din fericire, mereu acolo, prizoniera trecutului comun.”

“Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.”

“Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you know this is a search-and- destroy mission on the part of the media and your case is very strong, you are very articulate, you know what you're trying to accomplish - and you have no alternatives.”