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title: "1 Childhood Like Quotes By Tove Ditlevsen"
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> [my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/my-poems-covered-the-bare-places-in-my-childhood-like-the-fine-new/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

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## More by Tove Ditlevsen

> [Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/childhood-is-long-and-narrow-like-a-coffin-and-you-can-t-get-out-of/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/i-fear-the-place-i-have-in-the-memory-of-others-they-remind-me-of/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/my-childhood-grew-thin-and-flat-paperlike-it-was-tired-and-threadbare/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/my-poems-covered-the-bare-places-in-my-childhood-like-the-fine-new/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/memory-that-library-of-the-soul-from-which-i-will-draw-knowledge-and/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [ \[On her mother:\] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/on-her-mother-my-relationship-with-her-is-close-painful-and-skaky-and/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

> [Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/down-in-the-bottom-of-my-childhood-my-father-stands-laughing/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

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