#2,324

Unless what we write seems obsolete to modern man, immature to the adult, trivial to the serious man, we must start over.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,257

To be able to deliver to the adolescent we were his ambitions unfulfilled, but his dreams unpolluted.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

#1,795

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 296

#1,788

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 295

#1,340

Vulgar dreams are fulfilled here.
But those which the adolescent dreams under the oppressive foliage of summer do not build their nests here.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,051

A fulfilled life is one which delivers to the grave, after long years, an adolescent whom life did not corrupt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 187

#973

The adolescent’s insolence is nothing more than the bucking of an ass getting used to the stable.
Whereas the insolence of the adult who brusquely casts off his shoulders the years of patience doubling him over is a marvelous spectacle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 175

#931

Let us try, as we grow older, to assume attitudes which our adolescence would have approved and to have ideas which it would not have understood.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 169

#373

Adolescents take wing with the disdain of eagles and soon crash softly into the ground like pretentious chickens.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 77