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“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

“Vicariously,’” she said slowly. “You’ll have to tell me what that means, Anthony.” The way she said his name induced a kind of intimacy. It promised something, a repetition in some future time. “It means”—Anthony’s mouth had dried—“it means pleasure gained through the pleasure of someone else.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air