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«Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.»
«The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.»
Author: Dr. Richard Selzer
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Heart
| Keywords:
cage, nightingale, nightingales, palpably, throbbing, throbs
«Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.»
«You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.»
Author: Dr. Richard Selzer
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Death and dying
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agony, all at once, cellular, corpus, echoes, live on, molecular, shriek, shrieked, shrieking, shrieks, tissues
«I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end.»
«The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.»
«A minor operation is one that is done on someone else»
«I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.»
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