Doris Lessing. The summer just before sunset (№ 179386)

These put into use a cliché, as if taken from an exemplary of a display, have such a formidable force that many assert and assert without hesitation: Youth is the best time of life or, For women love is all - as long as one day does not catch in the mirror of his own facial expression at the moment of pronouncing one of these returns, or until you intercept the involuntary grimace of a person or companion in response to his revelations.