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“To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn”
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“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
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“the single worst moment of my life, was the moment I was born”
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“The mother instinct is something of which I am completely devoid. I explain it like this to myself: life is a vale of tears and all human beings are miserable creatures, so I cannot take the responsibility for bringing yet another unhappy creature into the world.”
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
“Every time a man is begotten and born the clock of human life is wound up anew, to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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