Gratitude
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017HYE3M2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 463 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Beautiful D. Piper I became aware of Oliver Sacks only in the last year or two of his life, through interviews, articles about his essays and autobiography, and his contributions to WNYC's Radiolab. Every time I heard him speak or read his words, I was struck by what a beautiful, gentle man he seemed. Four short, personal, profound essays about the facts of age and dying A neurologist who gained his greatest renown for his ability to write about his profession in a thoroughly human way, Oliver Sacks passed away in August of 2015. His literary legacy consists of these four short, personal, profound essays written in the last two years of his life as. a beautiful, brilliant I read Gratitude as soon as I received it, and will read it again, over and over. It is especially comforting to someone moving through their later years. Oliver Sacks always had a special place in my hearta beautiful, brilliant, tender soul. He'll be missed.
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) No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. "It is the fate of every human being," Sacks wrote, "to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death." Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. I have been given much, and I have given something in return. "My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved