Members Popular Post AJ4 Posted September 3, 2023 Members Popular Post Report Share Posted September 3, 2023 “I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. 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. “I cannot pretend I am without fear. But 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; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. 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.”—Oliver Sacks. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members ThereIsAField Posted September 4, 2023 Members Report Share Posted September 4, 2023 Thank you. Beautiful words. Oliver Sacks is amazing and has captured some powerful sentiments in words there. 🧡 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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