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Oliver Sacks: British neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 1933 to 2015.

It is the fate of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks · The source reads: “When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” · My Own Life, the New York Times (February 19, 2015)

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