As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Geography is destiny.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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