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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Racking back pain can mold an identity; fatigue and nausea can, as well.”

351. “Racking back pain can mold an identity; fatigue and nausea can, as well.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.”

352. “Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “And along with shift work comes a kind of shiftiness, a subtle undercutting of responsibility.”

353. “And along with shift work comes a kind of shiftiness, a subtle undercutting of responsibility.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “I had to help those families understand that the person they knew – the full, vital independent human – now lived only in the past and that I needed their input to understand what sort of future he or she would want: an easy death or to be strung between bags of fluids going in, others coming out, to persist despite being unable to struggle.”

354. “I had to help those families understand that the person they knew – the full, vital independent human – now lived only in the past and that I needed their input to understand what sort of future he or she would want: an easy death or to be strung between bags of fluids going in, others coming out, to persist despite being unable to struggle.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “I felt that to understand my own direct experiences, I would have to translate them back into language.”

355. “I felt that to understand my own direct experiences, I would have to translate them back into language.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Death comes for all of us. For us, for our patients:.”

356. “Death comes for all of us. For us, for our patients:.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death – the grave digger with the forceps. Not.”

357. “But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death – the grave digger with the forceps. Not.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “He spent much of his life wrestling with the question of how to live a meaningful life. And his book explores that essential territory.”

358. “He spent much of his life wrestling with the question of how to live a meaningful life. And his book explores that essential territory.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.”

359. “He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “It was only in practising medicine that I could pursue a serious biological philosophy. Moral speculation was puny compare to moral action.”

360. “It was only in practising medicine that I could pursue a serious biological philosophy. Moral speculation was puny compare to moral action.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “I began to see all disciplines as creating a vocabulary, a set of tools for understanding human life in a particular way.”

361. “I began to see all disciplines as creating a vocabulary, a set of tools for understanding human life in a particular way.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “The families who gather around their beloved – their beloved whose sheared heads contained battered brains – do not usually recognize the full significance, either. They see the past, the accumulation of memories, the freshly felt love, all represented by the body before them.”

362. “The families who gather around their beloved – their beloved whose sheared heads contained battered brains – do not usually recognize the full significance, either. They see the past, the accumulation of memories, the freshly felt love, all represented by the body before them.”

— Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Some days, I simply persist.”

363. “Some days, I simply persist.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Brave New World founded my nascent moral philosophy and became the subject of my college admissions essay, in which I argued that happiness was not the point of life.”

364. “Brave New World founded my nascent moral philosophy and became the subject of my college admissions essay, in which I argued that happiness was not the point of life.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Residency education regulations had forced most programs to adopt shift work. And along with shift work comes a kind of shiftiness, a subtle undercutting of responsibility.”

365. “Residency education regulations had forced most programs to adopt shift work. And along with shift work comes a kind of shiftiness, a subtle undercutting of responsibility.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some point, usually arise in a medical context. In the actual situations where once encounters these questions, it becomes a necessarily philosophical and biological exercise. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws.”

366. “And as I sat there, I realised that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some point, usually arise in a medical context. In the actual situations where once encounters these questions, it becomes a necessarily philosophical and biological exercise. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Between these core passions and scientific theory, there will always be a gap. No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.”

367. “Between these core passions and scientific theory, there will always be a gap. No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “We are all reasonable people – revelation is not good enough. Even if God spoke to us, we’d discount it as delusional.”

368. “We are all reasonable people – revelation is not good enough. Even if God spoke to us, we’d discount it as delusional.”

— Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi Quote: “My family engaged in a flurry of activity to transform my life from that of a doctor to that of a patient.”

369. “My family engaged in a flurry of activity to transform my life from that of a doctor to that of a patient.”

— Paul Kalanithi

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