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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
— Mark Twain
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
— Marianne Williamson
Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
— Carl Jung
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do.
— Anonymous
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
— Samuel Beckett
The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.
— Seneca
And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
— Ronald Reagan
Use the shadows of the born The shapes of the world And pass them before the light Of imagination's birthless ecstasy
— Jack Kerouac
I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves
— Jack Kerouac
Dean pointed out with a grimace of pain. "It's not the kind of sweat we have, it's oily and it's always there because it's always hot the year round and she knows nothing of non-sweat, she was born with sweat and dies with sweat." The sweat on her little brow was heavy, sluggish; it didn't run; it just stood there and gleamed like a fine olive oil. "What that must do to their souls! How different they must be
— Jack Kerouac