Paul Kalanithi
"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together? she asked. Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?Wouldn't it be great if it did? I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering."
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"Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together? she asked. Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?Wouldn't it be great if it did? I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering."
"ألن يسرق المولود الجديد من وقتنا معًا؟ سألت. ألا تظن أن وداع طفلك سيجعل موتك أشد إيلامًا؟ ألن يكون رائعًا لو كان كذلك؟ قلت. أنا ولوسي كلانا شعرنا أن الحياة ليست في تجنب المعاناة."
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."
"كل شيء يتأرجح بين الشجن والسخف: ها أنت ذا تنتهك أقدس محرمات المجتمع، ومع ذلك، فالفورمالديهايد منشط قوي للشهية، لذا تشتهي أيضاً بوريتو."
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
"What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability."
"إن ما يسعى إليه المرضى ليس المعرفة العلمية التي يخفيها الأطباء، بل الأصالة الوجودية التي يجب على كل إنسان أن يجدها بنفسه... فكرب مواجهة الفناء لا دواء له في الاحتمالات."
Paul Kalanithi
"Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable."
"تُبنى العلوم على قابلية التكرار والموضوعية المصطنعة. وبقدر ما يمنحها ذلك قوة في إطلاق ادعاءاتها حول المادة والطاقة، فإنه يجعل المعرفة العلمية غير قابلة للتطبيق على الطبيعة الوجودية والعميقة للحياة البشرية، تلك التي تتفرد بذاتها وتتسم بالذاتية واللايقين."
Paul Kalanithi
"Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete."
"لا يستقرّ العلم البشريّ في فردٍ واحدٍ أبدًا، بل ينمو من وشائجَ ننسجها بين بعضنا البعض وبين العالم، ومع ذلك، يظلّ ناقصًا لا يكتمل."
Paul Kalanithi
"People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same."
"يتفاعل الناس على نحو مختلف عند سماعهم "الإجراء س لديه فرصة نجاة بنسبة 70 بالمائة" و"الإجراء ص لديه فرصة وفاة بنسبة 30 بالمائة". بهذه الصياغة، يهرع الناس إلى الإجراء س، رغم أن الأرقام متطابقة."
Paul Kalanithi
"Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful"Wouldn't it be great if it did" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering."
"ألا تظن أن توديع طفلك سيجعل موتك أكثر إيلامًا؟"
"ألن يكون ذلك رائعًا لو حدث؟" قلت. لقد شعرنا أنا ولوسي على حد سواء أن الحياة ليست في تجنب المعاناة."
Paul Kalanithi
"Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito."
Paul Kalanithi
"What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability."
Paul Kalanithi
"The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time."
Paul Kalanithi
"mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naive understanding of the world"
Paul Kalanithi
"As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness."
Paul Kalanithi
"The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement."
Paul Kalanithi
"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. Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world."
Paul Kalanithi
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