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'Towards evening I used to talk to him; he was a poet himself; he had an ear for harmonies. In every natural effect we could read its cause as in an open book; we learnt to recognise the insect by its flight, the bird by its song, and the beauty of women by their footprints in the sand. He was too devoured by a thirst for adventure; his strength had made him bold. Ah! No later glory will ever equal that adolescence of our hearts! Rapturously inhaling every breath that blows, we tried in vain to exhaust our desires; every thought was a fervour; every feeling of singular acuity. We wore out our splendid youth in the expectation of a fairer future, and the road that led to it never seemed interminable enough, however fast we strode along it, crushing on our lips those hedgerow flowers that leave in the mouth a taste of honey and an exquisite bitterness.'
- Andre Gide, Fruits of the Earth