When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
ABRAHAM VERGHESELife for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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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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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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