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.
Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.
I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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