Youth is happy, because it has the ability to see beauty. When this ability is lost, wretched old age begins, decay, unhappiness. - Franz Kafka (Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch Quotes)

Youth is happy, because it has the ability to see beauty. When this ability is lost, wretched old age begins, decay, unhappiness.[Die Jugend ist glücklich, weil sie die Fähigkeit besitzt, Schönheit zu sehen. Wenn diese Fähigkeit verlorengeht, beginnt trostloses Alter, Verfall, das Unglück.]

Source:Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch (Frederick A. Praeger, ed. 1953), Page 33
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