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“Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.”

Heart Reason Youth Illusion Generous Spoil Wrinkles

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.”

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.”

World Doe Reality Age Beautiful Lying Youth Illusion Picks Rounds Realism Rifles Shooter Ambush

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville

“At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.”

Age Natural Youth Illusion Old Age Inevitable Pleasant Boredom Cherish

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...”

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.”

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Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

Men Life Giving May Has Beens Pain Learning Youth Giving Up Illusion Expectations Difficulty Fellows Ill Fellow Man Ill Will

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!”

Giving Enough Pain Joy Hate Emotion Youth Illusion Give Me Devotion Bliss Touched Thirst Love Hate Verge Ardent

Book:Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

Source: Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play