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"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."
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"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."
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"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."
Mortality
"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."
Survival
"For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!"
Philosophy
"I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action."
Decision
"You are, madame, so perfectly armoured, so completely sure of yourself.''Now I wonder, if I am to take that as a compliment?''It is, perhaps, a warning--not to treat life with arrogance."
Humility
"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
Attraction
"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"
Death
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
Communication
"We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later."
Growth
"The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all."
Awareness
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