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"You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
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"It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world, how they are destroyed."
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"God created all people good."
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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
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"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
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"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."
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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
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"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."
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"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."
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"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."
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"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience
"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Time
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity
"Human sympathy has its limits."
Emotion
"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
Strength
". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
People
"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
Reflection
"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
Relationship
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