"I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads."
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Jacques Lusseyran
Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist. He was blinded at age 7 and at 17 formed a resistance group in Nazi occupied France, for which he was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He later wrote an autobiography: And There Was Light.
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