Fools — in other words most people — imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's Vengeance")
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 all over again.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Oscar Wilde
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.
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Maya Angelou
Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous?
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Dave Eggers
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For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
They had...finished their lives before their death — which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
The Devil teaches women what they are — or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.
She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you, ' and - devil...
