William Somerset Maugham. Of human bondage (№ 8674)

After all, it is an illusion that youth is always happy, an illusion of those who have long parted with the youth; the young know how much they have to endure grief, because they are full of false ideals, instilled in them since childhood, and came into conflict with reality, they feel like she beats them and hurts. Young people start to think that she was the victim of a conspiracy: books chosen for them by adults, where everything is idealized, conversations with elders who can see the past through the haze of oblivion - all this prepares you for life quite different from the reality. Young people have to access most, what she read and what she was saying - lies, lies and lies; and each discovery is another nail piercing the young body, crucified on the cross of human existence.