The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste. (Elias Canetti)

The story of your youth must not turn into a catalog of what became important in your later life. It must also contain the dissipation, the failure, and the waste.

Elias Canetti

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