“The disease may not be too difficult to live with. I thought you said it was terminal?”

“So I did. But then, everything is terminal, even health, even life itself. The only question is how long, and in what manner.”

I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg (p. 142)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)

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