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"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."

"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."

"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
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