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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.”

351. “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:.”

352. “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.”

353. “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.”

354. “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.”

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

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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.”

356. “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.”

357. “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.”

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

358. “Some days, I simply persist.”

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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.”

359. “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.”

360. “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.”

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

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

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable?”

363. “How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable?”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “Did anyone tell you what the MRI showed?” I asked. “No.” The buck had been passed, as it often was with difficult news. Oftentimes, we’d have a spat with the oncologist over whose job it was to break the news.”

364. “Did anyone tell you what the MRI showed?” I asked. “No.” The buck had been passed, as it often was with difficult news. Oftentimes, we’d have a spat with the oncologist over whose job it was to break the news.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget.”

365. “It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “I had met her in a space where she was a person, instead of a problem to be solved.”

366. “I had met her in a space where she was a person, instead of a problem to be solved.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill.”

367. “We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “The decision to operate at all involves an appraisal of one’s own abilities, as well as a deep sense of who the patient is and what she holds dear.”

368. “The decision to operate at all involves an appraisal of one’s own abilities, as well as a deep sense of who the patient is and what she holds dear.”

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Paul Kalanithi Quote: “They see people at their most vulnerable, their most scared, their most private. They escort them into the world, and then back out.”

369. “They see people at their most vulnerable, their most scared, their most private. They escort them into the world, and then back out.”

— Paul Kalanithi

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