The youth has illusions, hopes for something extraordinary from life and from himself; the adult, in recompense, is often found to have illusions about his memories of his youth.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source The Sickness Unto Death
Topic youth memory
Date 1849
Language English
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Note Translated
 by Howard V. Hong and 
Edna H. Hong
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