As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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