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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Abraham Verghese

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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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