There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Interpretation
Young girls will experience disillusionment but will soon regain their sense of wonder.
The quote emphasizes the transient nature of disillusionment experienced by young girls, suggesting that these moments of doubt and loss of innocence are temporary. Instead of feeling pity for them, one should recognize that they will soon bounce back and regain their hopeful outlook on life.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges faced by young women today.
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?
I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.
pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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