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"Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality."
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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
"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
"Optimism is the opium of the people."
People
"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Beauty
"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
Responsibility
"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."
Spiritual
"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."
Loss
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