And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.
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Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
United Kingdom · 1933–2015
Science and medicine
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British neurologist who spent most of his career in New York, working with patients at Beth Abraham Hospital and later teaching at Columbia and NYU. His case histories, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, made clinical neurology a literary subject.
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