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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.


Umberto Eco


#exclusion #leprosy #poverty #nature

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.


Aleister Crowley


#always #anything #assumes #been #conscience

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.


Umberto Eco


#heresy #leprosy #poverty #faith

It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.


J.D. Stroube


#behavior #bonfire #choice #cliques #horror

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.


Walter Salles


#america #latin #latin america #leprosy #much

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.


Mother Teresa


#biggest #disease #feeling #leprosy #rather






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