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"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."
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"Many millions of pregnancies-many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child-were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion."

"No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have."
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"Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair."
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