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Prayer before BirthI am not yet born; O hear me.Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat...

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Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the...

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Madeleine L'EngleMiracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my bi...

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the...

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where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

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The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to bu...

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Mervyn PeakePeake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth ...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of soun...

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Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings ha...

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Omar KhayyámEdward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we ...

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To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come ...

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Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

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Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it w...

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Birth was the death of him.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

The only sin is the sin of being born

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and ...

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There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every liv...

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

In my beginning is my end.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and D...

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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

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Tom RobbinsJitterbug Perfume

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last ...

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Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spo...

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And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysteri...

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Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

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Wallace StegnerAll the Little Live Things

My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.

Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society i...

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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Interne...

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Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of...

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Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up w...

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Alex HaleyRoots: The Saga of an American Family

Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight child...

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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I forget your name," I said."Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it wit...

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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The endorphin high of birth will fade, but its trace remains with you forever, its fingerprints inde...

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It was difficult to anticipate—in these monsters with enormous, fantastic beaks which they opened wi...

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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocriti...

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...

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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...

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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is ...

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I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is ...

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Clarice LispectorNear to the Wild Heart

I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury...

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His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through in...

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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope ...

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It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl’s car...

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She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

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That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...

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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certi...

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Where unwilling dies the rose Buds the new another year.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...

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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we s...

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you ...

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two date...

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Fernando PessoaPoems of Fernando Pessoa

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the bir...

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...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all...

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on...

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But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of ch...

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Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and ...

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When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

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I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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George SantayanaThe Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

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Guy de MaupassantOriginal Maupassant Short Stories

The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is ult...

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The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in...

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