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The children learned these new games, but they forgot something else, something much more valuable: they forgot how to have fun, how to be fascinated, and above all, they forgot how to dream.
Little by little, the children came to look like miniature timesavers. Sullen, bored, and hostile, they did what they were told, and when they were occasionally left to themselves, they couldn't think of anything to do.
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Momo: Or the Curious Story About the Time Thieves and the Child Who Returned the People's Stolen Time

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MihaElla
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...That said, isn't it much nicer to be rich and famous?

It is, answered Gigi chokingly.

Well there you go! So leave us out of your games and just keep telling the people the things they want to hear!

How can I do that now that I know the truth? asked Gigi, straining himself to eke out these words.
Aug 21, 2026 08:00AM
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MihaElla
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"Don't even bother" he said. "You can't do it to us. You can't get inside."

Momo didn't relent.
"Doesn't anybody love you?" she asked in a whisper.

The gray man began to writhe, and quite suddenly, he sank into himself a little. Thus, in an even grayer voice, he answered:
Aug 18, 2026 07:29AM
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MihaElla
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There is a well known yet unspoken secret in this world.
Everyone is in on it and everyone knows what it is, but very few people ever think about it. Most people just take it for granted without wondering the slightest bit about it. The secret is time .
We have calendars and clocks to measure time, but they mean little: everyone knows a single hour can seem like an eternity or pass in a flash.
Aug 16, 2026 11:19PM
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MihaElla
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What difference does it make if what I say is or isn't written down in some old book? Who's to say that the stories in the old books aren't just as invented as mine, and people just don't remember anymore? What do 'true' and 'not true' mean anyway? Who can really know what happened here one or even two thousand years ago? Do you happen to know?
Aug 14, 2026 04:45AM
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MihaElla
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In this opinion, all the misfortune in the world came from the many lies -- the deliberate ones but also the accidental ones that were born of haste or imprecision.
Aug 12, 2026 07:47AM
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MihaElla
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Some things simply take time, and time was the only thing that Momo had in abundance.
Aug 11, 2026 07:59AM
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MihaElla "The only thing that they could still do just as well, even after all these changes, was make noise. But it was no longer joyful noise - no, the noise they now made was angry and baleful."


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