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A sad book, but a proud book too. Which is what I think Paul Kalanithi intended.
"Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes."
And, a Mengzi quote I felt appropriately related: "天將降大任於斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所為，所以動心忍性，增益其所不能." --> "So it is that whenever Heaven invests a person with great responsibilities, it first tries his resolve, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body, leaves him destitute, and confound his every endeavor."
"Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes."
And, a Mengzi quote I felt appropriately related: "天將降大任於斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所為，所以動心忍性，增益其所不能." --> "So it is that whenever Heaven invests a person with great responsibilities, it first tries his resolve, exhausts his muscles and bones, starves his body, leaves him destitute, and confound his every endeavor."
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This is a heart-breaking book over a neurosurgeon and his own decline due to lung cancer. It made me cry a couple of times and reflect and ponder about mortality. Do not read if youre not emotionally prepared for such a story as it is really hard to swallow.
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Think Tuesdays with Morrie if told from his perspective. Really introspective and heart aching.
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