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“Youth is a mortal wound.”

Youth Wounds Mortals

Book:Jacob Have I Loved

Source: Jacob Have I Loved

“Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.”

May Long Has Beens Stills War Age Term Youth Pride Prove Brave Noble Wounds Old Age Scar Unbound Old Wounds

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.”

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.”

Heart Doe Young Grows Tree Youth Wounds Young At Heart

Author:Nellie L. McClung

“If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.”

Ifs Knows May Youth Wounds Invisible Fancy Cheeks Arrows

Book:Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

Source: Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone

“My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.”

Country Together Past Justice Poor Situation Cutting Youth Strive Wounds Priorities Variety Inclusion

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”

Doe Would Be Literature Youth Eternal Constant Endure Wounds Golden Grants Translations Heartbeat Bleeding Springtime Rust Eternal Youth

Author:Ludwig Borne

“What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.”

Knows World Stills Real Romance Order Quality Youth Wounds Compromise Mortals Ease Openness Real World

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”