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"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."
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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."
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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."
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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."
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"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
Wisdom
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
Psychoanalysis
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
Fire
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
Man
"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."
Jealousy
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
Nature
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
Civilization
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."
Opportunity
"A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!"
Heart
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
Nothing
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