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  1. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate-the genetic and neural fate-of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
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  2. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can.
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  3. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to explore whatever I wish, and to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together.
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  4. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    I am now face to face with dying, but I am not finished with living.
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  5. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    Times of stress throughout my life have led me to turn, or return, to the physical sciences, a world where there is no life, but also no death.
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  6. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate--the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death."
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  7. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
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  8. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
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  9. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate-the genetic and neural fate-of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
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  10. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective. One has had a long experience of life, not only one's own life, but others' too. One has seen triumphs and tragedies, booms and busts, revolutions and wars, great achievements and deep ambiguities. One has seen grand theories rise, only
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  11. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective."
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  12. Oliver Sacks _ Gratitude

    a story I heard from a friend who, walking with Samuel Beckett in Paris on a perfect spring morning, said to him, "Doesn't a day like this make you glad to be alive?" to which Beckett answered, "I wouldn't go as far as that."}
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