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The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 530, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Mixed Opinions and Maxims, aphorism 392, "The Rule as Mother or as Child," (1879).)
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Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
(Robert Neelly Bellah (20th century), U.S. professor of sociology and author. Habits of the Heart, pt. 1, ch. 3 (1985).)
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Spirit enters flesh
And for all it's worth
Charges into earth
In birth after birth
Ever fresh and fresh.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Kitty Hawk.")
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This is the real creation: not the accident of childbirth, but the miracle of man-birth and woman-birth.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Not previously published. Mr. Noon, ch. 19, Cambridge University Press (1984).
Gilbert Noon thinking.)
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Ajax, l. 522.)
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I gave up before birth.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in "Fizzle 4," Fizzles, p. 31, Grove Press (1976).)
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Birth was the death of him.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. Speaker, in "A Piece of Monologue," one of the dramatic pieces in The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett, p. 265, Grove Press (1984).)
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The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. "Ash-Wednesday," pt. 6 (1930).)
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Whate'er is Born of Mortal Birth
Must be consumed with the Earth
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To Tirzah (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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And from a cliff top is proclaimed
The gathering of the souls for birth,
The trial by existence named,
The obscuration upon earth.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Trial by Existence.")
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