When Breath Becomes Air Quotes

When Breath Becomes Air Quotes

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After I was caught returning at dawn from one such late-night escapade, my worried mother thoroughly interrogated me regarding every drug teenagers take, never suspecting that the most intoxicating thing I'd experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry she'd handed me the previous week.

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Meaning seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaningless and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection. I found his metaphors leaking into my own language...Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided the richest material for moral reflection.

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If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?

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The camp delivered on its promise, concentrating all the idylls of youth: beauty manifest in lakes, mountains, people; richness in experience, conversation, friendships.

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Where did biology, morality, literature, and philosophy intersect? Walking home from a football game one afternoon, the autumn breeze blowing, I let my mind wander. Augustine's voice in the garden commanded, "Take up and read,", but the voice I heard commanded the opposite: "Set aside the books and practice medicine."...It would mean setting aside literature. But it would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay."

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