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“We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”

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Far from the Tree

“I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.”

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Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 697.

“I espouse reproductive libertarianism, because when everyone has the broadest choice, love itself expands.”

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The affection my family have found in one another is not a better love, but it is another love, and just as species diversity is crucial to sustain the planet, this diversity strengthens the ecosphere of kindness. The road less traveled by, as it turns out, leads to pretty much the same place.
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 12 Father, p. 700.