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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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