"Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils."

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Heart Quotes #Wrinkles Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Weâ€™re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.”
“Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision”
“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.”
“Until I truly loved, I was alone.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.75
“You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.”
“They always blame America first!”
“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK
“I have to prove myself five times over.”

Source : "Eleanor Poling, Daughter of Former Vice President, Dies at 51" by Kirk Semple, www.nytimes.com. September 17, 2011.

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