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Bewertet in den USA am22. März 2025
A well-written little book from an important author that makes keen insights about the end of life.
Kindle Customer
Bewertet in Australien am 4. Mai 2020
A poetic little piece of writing, with musings that help to ease the burden of life. I'm glad I have read this tonight, I'm working towards being more grateful and this has certainly helped.
nicole
Bewertet in Deutschland am 9. April 2020
fantastic book of short essays. a very beautiful book and lovely read
keyuri bhanushali
Bewertet in Indien am 7. Februar 2018
This is the best book to understand how time plays its role in our life. In this book, Oliver sacks express his thoughts during his last days. The four essays in this book will make you reflect on your life. He beautifully narrates how time flies away before we notice. He briefly mentioned that at the 80th year of his life he feels as if the life has just begun when it was almost over.In the book, he expresses his gratitude towards his life. The precise words in which he appreciated his life are as follows,' I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled 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. '
Wilff
Bewertet in Kanada am 14. August 2016
Small hardcover book so beautifully, simply presented........the contents are touching, thoughtful and honest - to be read and reread for the rest of my life.........and the physical book is so rewarding to look at, hold and feel. The 'dust cover' is glorious and gives a message all of its own.
Bill Mumford
Bewertet in Großbritannien am 6. Dezember 2015
This is a remarkable little collection of deep, personal, reflective and eloquent essays written by Oliver Sacks in the last two years of his life. Anticipating his 80th birthday, prior to knowing about his diagnosis of a fatal liver cancer, Sacks reflects that he does not think of old age as "an ever grimmer time", rather a freedom to explore and "to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together". This extraordinary and positive attitude continues when, a year later post diagnosis, he says: "It is up to me to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can."He concludes: "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 have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world...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."The most uplifting book I have read this year.
Dr. Klaus B|chner
Bewertet in Deutschland am 15. Dezember 2015
Oliver Sacks changed my life als he did to many other People around the world. With the epinominous gratitude I read his last book, so sad that this great storyteller and physician has left forever
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