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Gratitude

Gratitude

Sacks, Oliver

Hardcover

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralLetters & Essays

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0451492935
ISBN13: 9780451492937
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Nov 24 2015
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.13 Depth: 6.98
Language: English
A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. 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.

A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays....A lasting gift to readers. --The Washington Post

It is the fate of every human being, Sacks writes, 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.

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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