That is the worst moment, when you feel that you have lost the desire for all that was most desirable, before you are contented with what you can desire; before you know what is left to be desired; and you go on wishing that you could desire what desire has left behind. But you cannot understand. How could you understand what it is to feel old?

Source:(ed. Faber & Faber, 1950), Act I, Scene 2, Page 57
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