...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is matu — Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is matu — Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is matu — Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is matu — Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is matu — Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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