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“human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danc'd, and under that was I born.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world that we have not made.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives...” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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