A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. (Pablo Neruda)

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Pablo Neruda

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