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Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Gordon Ramsay
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
Life
Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next
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I'd like civilians who read this to get a sense, at least, that this life, in spite of everything, can be fun.
Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
In late 1569, a French nobleman named Michel de Montaigne was given up as dead after being flung from a galloping horse. As his friends carried his limp and bloodied body home, Montaigne watched life slip away from his physical self, not traumatically but almost flimsily, like some dancing spirit on the “tip of his lips.” Only to have it return at
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