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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We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2006). Heart of Darkness and Other Stories, p.13, Collector's Library

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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