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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Gabriel García Márquez
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
Not established
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1927 to 2014; Wikidata Q5878, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5878 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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