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“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

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Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”

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Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play

“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me understand my own loss of innocence.”

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Author:Nilo Cruz

“To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?”

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Author:Emile M. Cioran