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““And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated.””

Paul Kalanithi

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“I struggled, while facing my own death, to rebuild my old life—or perhaps find a new one.”

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“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can explain the sublime better than this, standing between day and night. It was as if this were the moment God said, “Let there be light!” You could not help but feel your specklike existence against the…

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