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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? High birth is an accident, not a virtue. Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... Labor gives birth to ideas. Kindness gives birth to kindness. The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. It is difficulties that give birth to miracles. Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control. Shadow owes its birth to light. Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. Birth was the death of him. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. Talents go by nature not by birth. The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Death is feared as birth is forgotten. After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks. He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth? All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty. Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it. One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude. Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth. It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. |
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