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.
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Life was what happened when all the what-ifβs didnβt, when what you dreamed or hoped or β in this case β feared might come to pass passed by instead.
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.
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