“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.”
Robert N. Bellah (1927–2013) American sociologist
Habits of the Heart, pt. 1, ch. 3 (1985)
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
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