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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.


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I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?



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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.



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Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.



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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

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