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The eternal child. – We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these things other names, to besure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidencethat they are the same things – for the child too regards play as his workand fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from apedantic division of life into different stages – as though each broughtsomething new – and a poet ought for once to present a man of twohundred: one, that is, who really does live without play and fairy tales.
