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“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“(B)rains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.”
― Paul Kalanithinithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned

“With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air