Paul Kalanithi Quotes

As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I Wasn't Done Studying. I Applied For A Master's In English Literature At Stanford And Was Accepted Into The Program. I Had Come To See Language As An Almost Supernatural Force, Existing Between People, Bringing Our Brains, Shielded In Centimeter-thick Skulls, Into Communion. A Word Meant Something Only Between People, And Life's Meaning, Its Virtue, Had Something To Do With The Depth Of The Relationships We Form. It Was The Relational Aspect Of Humans - I.e., "human Relationality" - That Undergirded Meaning. Yet Somehow, This Process Existed In Brains And Bodies, Subject To Their Own Physiologic Imperatives, Prone To Breaking And Failing. There Must Be A Way, I Thought, That The Language Of Life As Experienced - Of Passion, Of Hunger, Of Love - Bore Some Relationship, However Convoluted, To The Language Of Neurons, Digestive Tracts, And Heartbeats. At Stanford, I Had The Good

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

Paul Kalanithi Quotes: As Graduation Loomed, I Had A Nagging Sense That There Was Still Far Too Much Unresolved For Me, That I

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