“Often the children went alone, or held the hands of strangers. Sometimes parents saw them pass and did not dare call out their names. And they went, of course, not for anything they had done or said. But because their parents existed before them. The crime of being one's children.”

—  George Steiner

"A Kind of Survivor" (1965).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

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