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Heaven lies
about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us
pretty soon afterward.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author,
Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
But childhood
prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
-- Louise Bogan
1897-1970, American Poet,
Critic
There is
always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets
the future in.
-- Deepak Chopra
East-Indian- American M.D.,
New Age Author, Lecturer
Seven to
eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and
forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of
speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our
windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to
sight they armor themselves against wonder.
-- Leonard Cohen
1934-, Canadian-born American
Musician, Songwriter, Singer
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What a man
takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
-- Meister Eckhart
1260-1326 AD, German Mystic
Childhood is a
disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
-- William Golding
1911-1993, British Author
Let a man turn
to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his
sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
-- Alice Meynell
1847-1922, British Poet,
Essayist
Childhood is
the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet
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