Axel Munthe Quotes

#1. To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.

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#2. My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!

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#3. The soul needs more space than the body.

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#4. Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

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#5. The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

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#6. A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.

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#7. What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

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#8. A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

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#9. You cannot be a good doctor without pity.

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#10. Norstrom always used to say that I had two
different brains working alternatively in my head:
the well developed brain of a fool and the un-
developed brain of a sort of genius.

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