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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."
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Personal Development
"Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality."
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Personal Development
"We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years."
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Personal Development
"Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead."
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Personal Development
"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."
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Personal Development
"I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the 'warehouse of good intentions': 'Can't do it now.' 'Then put it on hold.' This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death-because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses."
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"The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love."
Religion
"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?"
Aging
"With writing, we have second chances."
Art
"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
Life
"She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."
War
"You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of."
Motivation
"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."
Emotions
"In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots."
Creativity
"I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days yore, so that he should be appraised of the many positions in which I am carnal. 'This is sixty-nine,' I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers--two of them--on the action, so that he would not overlook it. 'Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?' he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. 'It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor.' 'What did people do before 1969?' 'Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus."
Humor
"She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and hop."
Memory
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