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Letter "C" » Childhood
«We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.»
«When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»
«To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.»
«When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood»
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?»
«When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
bewitch, bewitched, bewitching, cattle, witches
«You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
figures, heath, heaths, landscapes, meadows, reflexive
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