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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."
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"Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."
Generosity
"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."
Age
"The present will not long endure."
Present
"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."
Beauty
"Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest."
Wisdom
"Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed."
Truth
"Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach."
Life
"Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen."
Man
"The test of any man lies in action."
Action
"Men are the dreams of a shadow."
Dream
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