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"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."

"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."

"When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all."

"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline."

"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."

"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."

"And the young Fisherman said to himself: "How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."

"In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
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