• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

  Shirley Hazzard
  
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. discounting
2. prestigious
3. calamity
4. grown-up
5. humbly
6. short

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. by : Shirley Hazzard

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