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Aaron is Currently Reading

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Everything All at Once

by Stephanie Catudal

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May 31, 2023 05:59PM

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)

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Aaron’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

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Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

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Aaron’s Quotes

“But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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“Surgeons must always tell the truth but rarely, if ever, deprive patients of all hope. It can be very difficult to find the balance between optimism and realism.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

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“The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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“The corridors and rooms were starting to fill with unfamiliar faces and patients the size of small whales being wheeled past on trolleys.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

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“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’ René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

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