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“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Way Humans Individual Cities Study Childhood Century Adults Complicated Finished Versions Curious Fascinating Transformed Infant

Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.”

Individual Race Sacrifice Childhood Painful Panic Avert Placating

Author:Rebecca West

“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”

Men Soul Pain Found Individual My Own Grief Doors Childhood Poet Expression Old Man Farmers Potatoes Parting Beggar Disclosure Expressions Of Love Workhouses

Book:The Kiltartan Poetry Book

Source: The Kiltartan Poetry Book

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”

Wells Children Individual Community Childhood Possibility Youth Activity Desert Better Life Here And There Abiding

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922