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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.

Abraham Verghese

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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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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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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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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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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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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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