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When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)


Literature provides the best account of the life of the mind.
page: 30
tags: mind

There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living.
page: 35
tags: experience

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job, not a calling.
page: 69
tags: calling purpose lifestyle

What's better: an easy death or persist despite being unable to struggle?
page: 87
tags: death

The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.
page: 132
tags: death living

The defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
page: 143
tags: striving

Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward.
page: 162
tags: uncertainty death

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.
page: 172
tags: knowledge relationships