You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
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