It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!
Abraham VergheseHe wrote in the fly leaf: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est! "That means 'Knowledge is power!' Oh, I do believe that, Marion.
Abraham Verghese...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
Abraham VergheseWe come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
Abraham VergheseTag: life
I stepped out to the lawn. I remember the air that night, and how it was so brisk that it could revive the dead. The fragrance of eucalyptus stoking a home fire, the smell of wet grass, of dung fuel, of tobacco, of swamp air, and the perfume of hundreds of roses--this was the scent of Missing. No, it was the scent of a continent.
Abraham VergheseLife, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE
Abraham VergheseI'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.
Abraham VergheseYesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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