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“My son, you are just an infant now, but on that day when the world disrobes of its alluring cloak, it is then that I pray this letter is in your hands.Listen closely, my dear child, for I am more t...”
“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and...”
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include politi...”
“When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.”
“Whenever I hear people clucking about the decline of civilization, what's wrong with young people, how vulgar popular culture is, how confusing and frightening they find the internet, alarms go off...”
“The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life.”
“Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.”
“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop ...”
“I am a lonely man," he said again that evening. "And is it not possible that you are also a lonely person? But I am an older man, and I can live with my loneliness, quietly. You are young, and it m...”
“She had collected experiences, I realized, as much as she had collected all these things. As we moved her out of her own life, she seemed lonelier that I hope I'll ever be.”
“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been al...”
“He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.”
“My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never leave her own house any more, but this ultimate seclusion seemed to be accepted by her with all ...”
“Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesnt kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily b...”
“Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.”
“One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks ...”
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life--it was not worth much--not like a life that, though en...”
“If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.”
“Let me tell you something, honey. When your boobs fall south and that pretty skin of yours looks like youve been tanning in a nuclear war zone, youll see what I mean about independence. When the lo...”
“To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.”
