Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. Haruki Murakami
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A child is born into this world, innocent and helpless. It takes a child’s innocence to love another person. The parents are the ones who give the child freedom to love. A child learns to love easily with the freedom that is given by his parents.

A child does not understand the consequences of that freedom. A child does not know what is wrong or right. But once he grows up, he starts feeling what is right and wrong.

He starts understanding good and bad, true and false. He starts understanding what is true love or false love, but before his mind can make up its mind, he has lost the innocence of childhood.

Source: South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

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