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"There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding."
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"Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth."
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"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals."
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"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."
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"Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me."
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"Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more."
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"Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength."
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"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."
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"Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth."
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"I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen."
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"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
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"I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me."
Relationship

"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."
Life

"Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding."
Emotion

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
Will

"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."
People

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
Life

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
People

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
Evil

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Living
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