"One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels."
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"Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth."
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"What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life."
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"Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever."
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"Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages."
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"You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything."
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"it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa."
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"youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!"
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"To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune."
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"What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old."
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"Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license."
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"Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions."
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"If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough."
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"One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth."
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"Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!"
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"The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age."
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"Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence."
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"I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it."
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"Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?"
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"I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent."
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