Sensitive Period

Famous quotes containing the words sensitive and/or period:

“Pity in a man of knowledge seems almost laughable, like sensitive hands on a cyclops.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)