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The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Paulo Freire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Paulo Freire: life dates 1921 to 1997. Wikidata Q164797, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164797 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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