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Tove Ditlevsen quotes: My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Tove Ditlevsen quotes: Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

Tove Ditlevsen quotes: My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

Tove Ditlevsen quotes: Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Tove Ditlevsen quotes: Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Tove Ditlevsen quotes: I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.

I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.