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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

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Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

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The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.”
Soren Kierkegaard

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.”
Desiderius Erasmus

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”
Pablo Picasso

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