"I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me."
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"Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!"
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"One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy."
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"Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again."
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"About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork."
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"To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth."
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"The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine."
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"I gave up before birth."
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"Love dies because its birth was an error."
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"Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same."
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"In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death"
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America."
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"Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind."
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"Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came."
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"If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate."
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"Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity."
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"Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal."
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"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
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