In Atonement, what is a good quote that is stated by or about Paul Marshall?

You might want to consider the following quote, that
applies to Robbie Turner. It is important because of the way it talks about how Robbie
is trying to work out what to do in his life now that he has got his degree from
Cambrdige, and is thinking of studying to be a
doctor:

What
deep readings his modified sensibility might make of human suffering, of the
self-destructive folly or sheer bad luck that drive men toward ill health! Birth, death,
and frailty in between. Rise and fall--the was the doctor's business, and it was
literature's too. He was thinking of the nineteenth-century novel. Broad tolerance and
the long view, an inconspicuously warm heart and cool judgement; his kind of doctor
would be alive to the monstrous patterns of fate, and to the vain and comic denial of
the inevitable; he would press the enfeebled pulse, hear the expiring breath, feel the
fevered hand begin to cool and reflect, in the manner that only literature and religion
teach, on the puniness and nobility of
mankind...

Consider the way
in which Robbie thinnks about the similarities between evaluation, in the way that
doctors practise it on humans and the way that literature carries this process out in
artistic analysis. At the end, the paragraph states that only literature and religion
have the necessary gravitas and power to help us learn the most important lessons of
humankind. Also, note the way in which Robbie contemplates his future in this passage
when he will be 50. After thinking about what kind of man he will be, he recognises the
limitations of knowledge. However many degrees he has, and however much he learns, it
will not be enough to conquer the unyielding force of mortality.