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“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.”

Source: The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949

“I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.”

Hate Growth Tree Youth I Hate Green Rounds Prudence Spoil Clinging Sucker Ivy Saplings

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“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

“All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.”

Years May Life Is Youth Flower Spring Rounds May Flowers

Author:Karel Capek

“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”

Needs Stills Subjects Missing Fronts Youth Cameras Rounds Teeth Expensive Thick Bangs Shutters Pictures Of Myself Favorite Subject

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri