Axel Munthe Quotes

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  • What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

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

  • 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.

    Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”
  • 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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    Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”
  • Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

    Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”
  • The soul needs more space than the body.

    Axel Munthe (2010). “The Story of San Michele”, p.181, Hachette UK
  • Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

  • I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

    "The Story of San Michele".
  • I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

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  • A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

    Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”
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