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Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

Freedom

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Margaret Atwood suggests that people often think being young means having freedom and happiness because they no longer remember how it felt when they themselves were young. She implies that this belief is more about forgetting past experiences than about the true nature of youth.

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