To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than fo…

Milan Kundera
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To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in. ✨ Ignorance. Book by Milan Kundera, 2000.
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