
Lecture I, p. 36
The Duties of Women (1881)
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 17
Context: His sex drive had diminished, had virtually disappeared. Salvation of the monk, he thought. The drive had to go sooner or later, or no normal man could dedicate himself to any life that excluded sex.
Now, happily, he felt almost nothing; perhaps a hardly discernible stirring far beneath the rocky strata of abstinence. He was content to leave it at that. Especially since there was no certainty that Ruth was the companion he had waited for. Or even the certainty that he could allow her to live beyond tomorrow. Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.
Lecture I, p. 36
The Duties of Women (1881)
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”
Source: South of No North
“"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32
Newsweek (Jan. 24, 1955)