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The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.

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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. . . . That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Children, Created, Death, Mortal, Our Actions, Promise
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Heart, Life, Love, Reason, Risk, Strength

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Experience, Shape, Shapes, Stories, Young

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Entire, Let, Life, Long, Past, Present

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

Children, Clarity, Crave, Daughter, Daughters, Mother

Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

Bird, Die, Instead, Light, Look, Ravens
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