"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

Age, Mother, Old

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"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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"I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses."

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"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."

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"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston."

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"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things."

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"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."

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