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What are your favourite quotes (from fiction or non-fiction) about the heart?
I used to enjoy one from a book but I can't find it now lol, so I'll find one later.
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I like this quote from The Sublime Engine - by Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon, M.D:
"There is something alive inside you.
Right there, pulsing beneath your ribs. It hammers out a steady rhythm that reverberates through your musculature. If you touch your neck or your wrist or your leg, you can feel its report. It is as if a small but powerful beast has lodged inside your chest. The realization excites and frightens you. With this surge of emotion, the beast responds by quickening its activity — as if it senses your fear."
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Post on tumblr recently had one I liked
"Ignoring your passion is slow suicide. Never ignore what your heart pumps for."
Last edited by Diff (2019-01-15 15:23:47)
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These excerpts are from Heart: A History, by Sandeep Jauhar.
"More than anything, the heart wants to beat; this purpose is built into its very structure…the heart doesn’t just pump blood to other organs; it pumps blood to itself. In a sense, and unlike any other organ, the heart is self-sustaining."
"We associate the heart with life because, like life itself, the heart is dynamic. From second to second, and on a macroscopic scale, the heart is the only organ that discernibly moves. Through its murmurings, it speaks to us; through its synchronized contractions, it broadcasts an electrical signal several thousand times more powerful than any other in the body."
"I was fascinated by the heart’s dichotomous nature: muscular, constantly toiling, and yet so vulnerable at the same time"
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