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All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream
All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Michael Ende
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Michael Ende: life dates 1929 to 1995. Wikidata Q76498, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76498 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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