Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Si. And her face has haunted me. Not so long as that other but
more touchingly because I am no longer sixteen and this is a woman.
Yes, I did think of her, I myself was once that age and I, too, had
a face of my own to show to the world, though not so superb. And
I, too, didn't know why I had come into the world any more than she
does."