i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future