Yet, if nothing else, each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness. Who are we to decide that it is hopeless?

R. D. Laing (1927-1989) Scottish psychiatrist [Ronald David Laing]

The Politics of Experience, ch. 1 (1967)
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