Willa Cather - Youth Quotes

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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

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Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

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People are always talking about the joys of youth — but, oh, how youth can suffer!

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He loved youth — he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardor could command him.

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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness — why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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His misfortune was that he loved youth — he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardour could command him. It hadn't worn out with years, this responsiveness, any more than the magnetic currents wear out; it had nothing to do with Time.

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If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on.

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