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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

Abraham Verghese

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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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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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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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