By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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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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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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