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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"

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

"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."

"Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it."

"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."

"A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice."

"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."

"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"On the virtuous man "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself."

"The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me."

"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
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