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Plato

"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many."

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"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many."

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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"

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

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"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"

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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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A.E. Samaan

"Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it."

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"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."

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"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."

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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."

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"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 homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."

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