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“I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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“We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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“There must be a way, I thought, that language of life as experienced-- of passion, of hunger, of love-- bore some relationship, however convoluted, to the language of neurons, digestive tracts, and heartbeats.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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“Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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