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“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”
“Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youthWhy?-Isn't it gorgeous?”
“You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.”
“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”
“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”
“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”
“Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for”
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
“For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.”
“I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual...”
“O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow. You are self-confident and insolent ...”
“Spontaneity is the province of youth”
“Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life,and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.”
“Youth lasts much longer than young people think.”
“Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.”
“We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.”
“The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough tru...”
