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"Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand."
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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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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Happiness

"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."
Death

"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
Memory

"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
Perception

"The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories."
Love

"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."
Creativity

"Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
Relationship

"Optimism is the opium of the people."
People

"Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth."
Emotion

"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Beauty
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