I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. - Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) quotes