出生
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass, and die.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.
The human mind is not a blank slate at birth.
The moment the child is born, stimuli begin to play upon him.
