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“Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

tags: anatomy, guilt, morality, mortality, philosophy, sacred

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“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

tags: alone, solitude, want

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“I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin.”
― Ben Brooks, Grow Up

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“Say,' Uzi pressed on, 'is it true that when you people go out on a job they promise you seventy nymphomaniac virgins in Kingdom Come? All for you, Solico?'

'Sure, they promise,' Nassar said, 'and look what it got me. Lukewarm vodka.'

'So you're just a sucker in the end, eh, ya Nasser,' Uzi gloated.

'Sure thing,' Nasser nodded. 'And you, what did they promise you?”
― Etgar Keret, Kneller's Happy Campers

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