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A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

Olive Schreiner
Children, Ideas, People
Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

Olive Schreiner
Children, Ideas, Looks
Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Olive Schreiner
Children, Loneliness, Ignorance
Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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