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And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment...more

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It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts o...more

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.