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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood

Book by Marcel Pagnol · 3 quotes · Adults, Handkerchief, Lies

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All Adults Handkerchief Lies Lying Nostrils Snot Vernunft

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“Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.”

Lying Adults Lies

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“Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.”

Vernunft

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“Of course I had a handkerchief. It lay, clean as a whistle, in my pocket where it had been for a week. For I had the knack of extracting from my nostrils, with the nail of my forefinger, the snuffling substances that impeded my breathing, and the use of a handkerchief seemed to me a piece of parental superstition.”

Handkerchief Snot Nostrils

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