Granace Lucas the Elder - The fountain of youth
He stopped again, this time in a square, where he recognized some homes, and recalled the struggles and controversies, the lively events that had accompanied their rise. I think the friends of youth; had been his childhood friend, he knew them personally or in name only, that they were his age or older, all the rebels who wanted to give birth to things and new people, here or in any other spot where ' he had lived. Now those homes, the hats as good old-fashioned aunts, who were there in the afternoon light began to fade already, so dear and unimportant, and not at all exciting. Journeyed to smile. But those who had left behind these remains now without pretension, meanwhile, had become professors, and celebrity names, some well-known reputation of progress, for a more or less long been clouded by the joints were solid.
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities - pag.126
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