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“A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.”
― Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
― Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
“Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.”
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“The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication.”
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“I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Homer's The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson
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In this group, we will read and discuss Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Odyssey, published in November 2017 by Norton. We also welcome d ...more
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