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...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.
...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.
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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- Gabriel García Márquez
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- Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
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