"I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion."

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"I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion."

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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

Humanity

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

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"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

Perception

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Desire

"This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but assoon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her lifemiserable."

Relationship

"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

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