Cesare Pavese Quotes About Children
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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