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"The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate."
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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness."

"To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary."

"As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it."
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