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“Our neighbor, Jokai Neni, had two sons who were both locomotive engineers. They were my heroes, and I always ran out to greet them when they came home with their oily, sooty faces.”

Book:From Utopia to The American Dream

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From Utopia to The American Dream

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“The exception, as ever, was the children. Freed from the constraints of silence which had been enforced during the bard's performance, the children dashed into the woods with wild cries, and enthusiastically immersed themselves in a game whose rules were incomprehensible to all those who had bidden farewell to the happy years of childhood. Children of elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves, quarter-elves and toddlers of mysterious provenance neither knew nor recognised racial or social divisions. At least, not yet.”

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Book:Blood of Elves

Source: Blood of Elves

“But it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them.”

Childhood Memory

Book:Peace

Source: Peace

“बचपन की जिज्ञासाओं पर भविष्य की ईमारत बनती है ।”

Childhood Future Curiosity

Book:कितने मोर्चे

Source: कितने मोर्चे

“A mãe teve reuniões com vãrios professores. (...) «Robert vive num mundo construído por ele. Eu sei que ele é meu filho, mas por vezes tenho a sensação de que ele veio não de mim e do meu marido, mas de algum outro lugar para onde tenta voltar (...)»".”

Inspirational Childhood Portuguese Edition

Book:The Bridges Of Madison County

Source: The Bridges Of Madison County

“Water and I have always gotten along. I was not a child who complained about having to take a bath or a shower, because I enjoyed being alone somewhere where people could not interrupt me, or if they did, I could pretend not to hear them over the water running.”

Water Childhood Baths

Book:Poison for Breakfast

Source: Poison for Breakfast

“L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.”

Happiness Felicità Infelicità Leopardi

Book:Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)

Source: Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues (Biblioteca Italiana)

“It doesn't matter what weapons the boys use, or what they're wearing. Even though she isn't allowed to ask about the war, she understands enough about what it means. War is where men go to kill each other. These boys—even though some of them are younger than she is—hold death in their eyes.”

War Childhood Trauma

Book:Wendy, Darling

Source: Wendy, Darling

“There, in childhood, there had been something so transcendently pleasant that if it would only return he could carry on living. But the person who had lived through all these pleasures no longer existed: it was as though he were reminiscing about some old friend.”

Death Memories Childhood

Book:The Death of Ivan Ilych

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

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