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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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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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