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Abraham   Verghese
“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Abraham   Verghese
“When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Jean-Paul Sartre
“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”
Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

Abraham   Verghese
“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. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. 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, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

Abraham   Verghese
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-”
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
tags: grief

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