The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privileg…

Joseph Conrad
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The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection. ✨ Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer and Other Stories, W. W. Norton & Company
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The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection. ✨ Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer and Other Stories, W. W. Norton & Company

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