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"The presence of unknown people sleeping arouses a natural respect in honest minds, and in spite of ourselves we were intimidated by this. And that cracked, irregular concerto of breathing, and the ticking of clocks, and the poverty of the houses, gave the impression of precarious, troubled rest; and the signs of the war you could see all around – blue lights, poles propping up walls, piles of sandbags, arrows pointing the way to shelters, and even our very own presence – all this seemed a threat to the sleep of exhausted people."

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Into the War by Italo Calvino

"...the placebo effect is a biological response to an act of caring; that somehow the encounter itself calls forth healing and that the more intense and focused it is, the more healing it evokes."

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 edited by Sy Montgomery

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