Robertson Davies Quotes

What Really Shapes And Conditions And Makes Us Is Somebody Only A Few Of Us Ever Have The Courage To Face: And That Is The Child You Once Were, Long Before Formal Education Ever Got Its Claws Into You - That Impatient, All-demanding Child Who Wants Love And Power And Can't Get Enough Of Either And Who Goes On Raging And Weeping In Your Spirit Till At Last Your Eyes Are Closed And All The Fools Say, 'Doesn't He Look Peaceful?' It Is Those Pent-up, Craving Children Who Make All The Wars And All The Horrors And All The Art And All The Beauty And Discovery In Life, Because They Are Trying To Achieve What Lay Beyond Their Grasp Before They Were Five Years Old.

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