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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Childhood
Louise Bogan

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Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
Childhood
William Golding

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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Childhood
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Childhood
William M. Thackeray

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Childhood
Ambrose Bierce

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Childhood
William Wordsworth

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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Childhood
Virginia Woolf

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Childhood
John Milton

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Childhood
Deepak Chopra

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Childhood
Meister Eckhart

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