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The pipe soothed him, and gradually I made out he had run away from school, had gone to sea in a Russian ship; ran away again; served some time in English ships; was now reconciled with the arch-priest. He made a point of that. “But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.” “Here!” I interrupted. “You can never tell! Here I have met Mr Kurtz,” he said, youthfully solemn and reproachful. I held my tongue after that. It appears he had persuaded a Dutch trading-house on the coast to fit him out with stores and goods, and had started for the interior with a light heart and no more idea of what would happen to him than a baby. He had been wandering about that river for nearly two years alone, cut off from everybody and everything. “I am not so young as I look. I am twenty-five,” he said.

 

Joseph Conrad  ·  Heart of Darkness

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Bruce Wayne aka The Batman

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"The twenty-five-year-old heir to the Wayne millions declined to comment on rumors of romance in his life..."

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Cornelius Schmidt

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Delmore Schwartz

"At the age of twenty-five, he said to himself, I am neither here nor there..."

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Will Ladislaw

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George Eliot

"he would go away easily, and begin a career which at five-and-twenty seemed probable enough in the inward order of things, where talent brings fame, and fame everything else which is delightful..."

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Mr Shadrack

Billy Liar

Keith Waterhouse

"Shadrack was not the stock cartoon undertaker, although he would have made a good model for other stock cartoons..."

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Tom

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Patrick Hamilton

"He was now twenty-five, but looked any age between twenty and thirty..."

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Anthony Patch

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him..."

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Tom Ripley

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Patricia Highsmith

"Dickie was lucky. What was he himself doing at twenty-five?"

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Jack Walser

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

"He was like a handsome house that has been let, furnished..."