Youth has the illusion of hope; the adult has the illusion of recollection, but precisely because he has this illusion, he also has the utterly biased idea of illusion that there is only the illusion of hope.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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