"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming……" — Arthur Schopenhauer

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like… - Arthur Schopenhauer
"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means."

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