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“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”

Ifs Thinking Common Failing Childhood Hero Satisfied Demon

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.”

Mean Love Is Common Childhood Changed Taught Assumption Theme Adulthood Misguided Love Means False Assumptions

Author:Bell Hooks

“Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.”

“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”

Thinking Children Facts Seems Remember Faces Young Parent Common Childhood Terrible Mirrors Shock Helpless Grandparent Young Children Mirror Image

Author:Sam Mendes

“When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.”

Humans Persons Dream Reality Goal Chance Results Common Plans Childhood Moon Surface Exploration Metals Founders Participation Chairman Robotics Minerals Childhood Dreams Precious Metal

Author:Naveen Jain

“Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.”

Children Problem Social Common Cities Violence Childhood Example Serious Related Bullying Refugee Domestic Violence Famine Deprivation Wartime Inner City

Author:Robert Winston

“Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'”

Knows Way Looks Light Voice Walks Common Wonder Journey Childhood Keys Obstacles Woods Distraction Usual Exhausted

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.”

Source: The Middle Place

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

Children Reality Young Grows Parent Common Grief Childhood Terrible Protect Adults Bitter Awful Innocence Vulnerability Rodents

Author:Katherine Dunn

“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...”

World Believe Children Real Play Remember Used Spirit Heaven Common Half Childhood Common Sense Fairy Insightful Balanced Spirit World

Author:Beatrix Potter

“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.”