What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Paul Kalanithi
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  3. I find that... The bigger the ego. The bigger the mouth. The deeper the shallowness of a person. - Anthony T. Hincks

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More Quotes By Paul Kalanithi
  1. Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

  2. What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

  3. Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation.

  4. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"" Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about...

  5. Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

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