There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Interpretation
Young girls will experience disillusionment but will soon regain their sense of wonder.
The quote emphasizes the transient nature of disillusionment experienced by young girls, suggesting that these moments of doubt and loss of innocence are temporary. Instead of feeling pity for them, one should recognize that they will soon bounce back and regain their hopeful outlook on life.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges faced by young women today.
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
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