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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body."

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—Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

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Hitch on raising daughters…

(Source: lifetoheryears)

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