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What does it mean?
The roles of creating and ending life are presented as equally powerful and unified.
In plain terms
Giving life and taking it are seen as the same power.
What can you take from it?
Life and death are two sides of one coin.

Where it applies

  • ethical debate
  • motherhood reflection
  • existential thought

Putting it to work

  • discussing life ethics
  • writing about motherhood
  • philosophical study

Questions to consider

  • Is creating life like taking it?
  • How do we view power over life?

Another view

It equates distinct moral acts without distinction.

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  3. The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind Is but a foolish wind.

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