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“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.”

Book:Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now.”

War Childhood Child Soldiers Beasts Of No Nation

Book:Beasts of No Nation

Source: Beasts of No Nation

“If somewhere deep within me arises some essence of having been a child, one I never experienced, perhaps the purest childness of my childhood, I don’t want to know it. Without even looking, I want to form an angel out of it and hurl him into the foremost rank of screaming angels, to remind God.”

Childhood Angels

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I was scarcely aware of the angry hands scratching and pulling at me from all directions. Instead, I closed my eyes and wished silently for death to free me.”

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Book:The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

Source: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“—¿No tenés amigos de infancia? —No me casé con los amigos de la infancia. Si ahora tengo poco discernimiento para elegirlos, ¿cómo habrán sido las equivocaciones de mis primeros años? Las amistades de infancia son erróneas, y no se puede ser fiel al erro indefinidamente.”

Childhood Infancia

Book:La furia

Source: La furia

“No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.”

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Book:Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Source: Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

“You're born and things stick to you. Some fall off, but most you carry around for the rest of your life. Let me be old and foolish when I grow up.”

Childhood Chorus Of Mushrooms Hiromi Goto

Book:Chorus of Mushrooms

Source: Chorus of Mushrooms

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