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This is easily one of the greatest pieces of writing I’ve ever had the privilege to read. I’m at a loss for how to write about this because I’m feeling so profoundly moved and can’t think. Just read it and you’ll see!
I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful?
If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?
There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.
Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici: “With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
Becau ...more
If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?
There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.
Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici: “With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
Becau ...more
We read this for book club and I fell in love with it. There were so many profound quotes I ended up marking up in the book and we had a great discussion about it.
Amazing book by an amazing doctor who sees death from both sides - as doctor and patient.
Jan 20, 2017
Lea Elizabeth Ludwig
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