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I have always associated hospitals with gloom, with drabness, with ugliness, and with despondency. The association was once falsified in California and again in Denmark. But not till I was taken through the hospital founded by Padre Pio at San Giovanni Rotondo did I associate such intensely positive values as cheerfulness, beauty, hopefulness, and the last word in modernity with such an institution.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 38