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Aldous Huxley

"Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?"

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"Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?"

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

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"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."

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"You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic."

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"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."

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"The good thing about being old is not being young."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"Growing older is certain, growing wiser is harder and optional."

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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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"Some people do not really hate aging, they merely love the colour black."

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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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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
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"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
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"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
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"Dream in a pragmatic way."
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