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"I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
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"Growing older is certain, growing wiser is harder and optional."
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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
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"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"
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"As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."
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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."
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"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
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"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"
Faith
"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
Family
"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
Simplicity
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
Literature
"Superstition is the poetry of life."
Life
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
Perception
"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
Love
"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."
Emotion
"A useless life is an early death."
Death
"National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
Conflict
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