"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

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"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."

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Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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