It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
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ANUM To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heav... SALMAN RUSHDIE Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paed... ESTHER DUFLO I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I ... ELIZABETH WURTZEL When I'm out for a walk or out shopping, then I'll probably have 20 different conversations ... DAVID DUNN The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ... ANAïS NIN When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... DENIS JOHNSON When you create something wonderful from your heart, it will have a life of its own... and even you,... JOHN B. BEJO When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... 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