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You have to say goodbye to youth cheerfully, with full lungs, with a roar of laughter, like someone who gets rid of an unreliable travel companion. That's what needs to be said. (...) It wasn't so good to be young. There was confusion, fog, longing, ignorance, false notions, even more false notions, desire and fear that we would be left behind in the great race. And when we held someone in our arms, how many misunderstandings! And the fear of missing the Other, who is more real! (...) No, you can say goodbye to youth without regrets. It was a feverish state, a touching and tender self-absorption.