"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."
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"Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you."
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"my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know."
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"To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo."
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"At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill."
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"Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish."
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"O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?"
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"Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV."
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"The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections."
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"If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false"
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"I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it."
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"In [my] youth I was smacked around."
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"To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started."
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"Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth."
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"Too young for woe, though not for tears."
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"Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant."
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"Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked."
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"The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe."
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"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school."
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"We have some salt of our youth in us."
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