"If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future."
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"Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever."
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"Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood."
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"We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood."
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"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."
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"The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil."
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
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"I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies."
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"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
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"The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible."
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"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die."
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"In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net."
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"It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy."
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"This life is but the childhood of our immortality."
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"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
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"The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process."
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"Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations."
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"Life is the childhood of our immortality."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
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"If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible."
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