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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
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Personal Development
"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."
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"Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears."
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"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
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"If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on."
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Personal Development
"I've been playing the game of life for over 52 years now and I don't feel one day younger or older than I am. Maybe its I just don't feel."
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"In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you."
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"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."
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"Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
Life
"In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write."
Faith
"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."
Man
"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."
Growth
"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
War
"The narrator refers to a character as 'an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."
Power
"When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there."
Truth
"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."
Journey
"For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home."
Identity
"And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted, and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked."
Ego
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