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“When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off the creation of new stars. In its own way, it was not unlike being born.”

Book:Appetite & Other Stories

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“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.”

Life War Government Death Birth Illness Government Corruption Syphilis Hemingway

Book:A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“You may be tempted to regret being born when you are made to watch the videos of just what you will go through to achieve your dreams... But you are highly likely to wish you can live and live again and again if the size of your purposeful achievements is shown to you! Live on!”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...”

Death Birth Travel

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.”

Children Mom Birth Motherhood Mothers Day Babies

Author:Linda Becker

“Time is a function of memory; what does not pass through a smile flies away through dark. Celebrating passing time applies to the successful ones. Cheer on your birthday, you're among the lucky ones.”

Success Birth Ageing Birthdays

Author:Shady K. Hallab

“...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

Life Self Identity Birth

Book:Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.”

Humor Birth Weak England Teeth Story Newton Small Isaac Newton Vigour

Book:Essays on the Life and Work of Newton

Source: Essays on the Life and Work of Newton

“For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made...no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth day. Own what you create as well as what you break.”

Born Responsibility Creativity Birth Birthday Create Earth Day

Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It is hard to imagine the moment when you fade back into the vacuum and draw your last breath.”

Birth Death And Dying Orgasm

Book:The Secret Life of Girls

Source: The Secret Life of Girls

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