"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

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"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

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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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"To abandon the child 'within' means that the adult 'without' will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic."

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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

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