You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Everything we do has consequences.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.