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As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern

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Jostein Gaarder
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Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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