When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBy visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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