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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Shirley Hazzard: "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."

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Calamity	Children	Discounting	Drama
Grownup	Hidden	Horrors	Humbly
Imagining	Keeping	Lives	Prestigious
Proper	Real	Seldom	Sense
Short	Tragedy	True	World

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