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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

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The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then ou...more

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Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human ...more