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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

— Bryant H. McGill

To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of…

— Hannah

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

— Loren Eiseley

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

— Thomas Merton

“It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which…

— Donna Goddard

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so…

— Anthony Powell

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

— Rachel Cusk

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

— Rumer Godden

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands…

— Albert Einstein

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is…

— Frances Burnett