It is a well known fact that men have an unfortunate tendency to avoid paternal duties, to fall delinquent in alimony payments and to ignore their children. They refuse to grasp that children are the very essence of love... In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings. Even if a man loves a women without so much as touching her he must reckon with the possibility that his love may engender an issue and emerge into the world...

Immortality

Milan Kundera