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“Weren’t the numbers just the numbers? Had we all just given in to the “hope” that every patient was above average? It occurred to me that my relationship with statistics changed as soon as I became one.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I was searching for a vocabulary with which to make sense of death, to find a way to begin defining myself and inching forward again. The privilege of direct experience had led me away from literary and academic work, yet now I felt that to understand my own experiences, I would have to translate them back into language. Hemingway described his process in similar terms: acquiring rich experiences, then retreating to cogitate and write about them. I needed words to go forward.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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