When the child has grown big and must be weaned, the mother virginally hides her breast, so the child has no more a mother. Happy the child which did not in another way lose its mother.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Fear and Trembling
Topic hiding mother
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Walter Lowrie
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