>the romantic beauty of youthful imaginings, when the mind elevates the mean and common into the magnificent, before experience teaches what is the Real.

I'm at that stage of life right now, learning that many of the ideals fed into young minds like I once was were, in fact, just ideals and practically irrelevant to the road of life ahead. That the world of humanity is, in fact, not rainbows and unicorns but vicious and uncaring.

The eloquence of his message strikes deep.