You are unanswerable. Yours is the logic of youth, and no man can answer that. The facts of life can, but they have no place in the logic of youth. Youth must try to live according to its logic. That is the only way to learn better."
"There is no harm in trying?" she interjected. "But there is. That is the very point. The facts always smash youth's logic, and they usually smash youth's heart, too.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
"'In heaven I may regain it'? Oh, be still! I want no heaven but what my glad youth gave. Its long, bright hours, its rapture and its thrill -
O youth, youth, youth! it is my YOUTH I crave.英文原著 · 《The Kingdom of Love and Other Poems》
I recalled all this and began to cry! I felt sorry for my youth, for I am now thirty years old, the last days for a woman! Eh, Foma Ignatyevich!" she exclaimed, lifting her voice louder, and reiterating the rhythm of her harmonious speech, whose accents rose and fell in unison with the melodious murmuring of the water. "Listen to me--preserve your youth! There is nothing in the world better than that. There is nothing more precious than youth. With youth, as with gold, you can accomplish anything you please. Live so that you shall have in old age something to remind you of your youth.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Don't be afraid, Gerald. Remember that you've got on your side the most wonderful thing in the world - youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
He would go out of Vere's life, abruptly, as he had come into it. He would go. That was certain. But others would come into Vere's life. Fire would spring up round about her, the fire of love of men for a girl who has fire within her, the fire of the love of youth for youth. Youth! Artois was not by nature a sentimentalist--and he was not a fool. He knew how to accept the inevitable things life cruelly brings to men, without futile struggling, without contemptible pretence.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
She was twenty-six years old. At that age, with plenty of romantic illusions still left, the mind loves to dwell on the thought of death when death seems to come as a friend. But with youth, death is coy, coming up close only to go away, showing himself and hiding again, till youth has time to fall out of love with him during this dalliance. There is that uncertainty too that hangs over death's to-morrow. Youth plunges back into the world of living men, there to find the pain more pitiless than death, that does not wait to strike.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Yeah, well, there's a window into your youth I could've done without right now.美剧 · 《Billions》
And all brief resting places for me in my youth.美剧 · 《Billions》
If they are damaged even in the slightest, an entire generation of youth would be robbed of the joy of their beauty.美剧 · 《Billions》
I mean, obviously, I'm a fan of her early work which both satirized and celebrated youth culture's obsession with sex, but I do wonder as a third-wave feminist if it's even possible for women to reclaim their sexuality in this deeply entrenched patriarchal society, or if claiming to do so is just a美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》