The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. – Erik H. Erikson

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso, quoted in Time, October 1976

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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him. – Pablo Neruda

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriates career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. – Paul Theroux

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