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childhood

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags childhood, existence, perception

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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tags change, childhood

“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can’t help making fly-traps, and men can’t help making symbols. That’s what the human brain is there for – the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”

-Aldous Huxley, Island
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tags belief, experience, faith

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