„For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.“
— James Joyce