"Even if I hated my childhood, I am nostalgic for it. How can it be possible? Probably because the past is—in a way—settled. I think that childhood is a moment where the world is growing every day. Every day the world is bigger, reality is bigger, reality is deeper. When you become an adult, everything shrinks. You realize that the world is smaller and smaller, and people's minds are not as big as you thought."
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On being nostalgic for his childhood despite the pain he suffered in “BOYS DON'T CRY: AUTHOR ÉDOUARD LOUIS’ BODY POLITICS” in SSENSE
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