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“It was the happiest time of my life. I was useful, I was learning, I was away from my father. I look back at that time with extreme fondness. It seems rather far away now, but that is what age does. Time is such a villain.”

Book:Tales from Frewyn

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“...Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)”

Age

Book:In the Night of Time

Source: In the Night of Time

“In youth, there can be a feeling that time moves too slowly. But, as we age, the acceptance that our time is limited prompts the wise to cherish each and every moment.”

Age Youth Aging Loving Life Growing Older Value Of Time Cherish Each Moment

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“He looked simultaneously very young and very old, as if all the past and future versions of himself were overlaid on his face.”

Age Identity

Book:Truly Madly Guilty

Source: Truly Madly Guilty

“My life has been a real life version of Cluedo since the age of 45 because I have been working through the workplace exposures that sent me into disability.”

Life Age Astronomy Osha Disability Tmt Workplace Working Exposures Cluedo

Author:Steven Magee

“My dear, maybe you haven’t noticed, but I’ve grown old. I speak my mind because I’m no longer expected to bite my tongue. Age is a high price to pay for the liberty, and I intend to enjoy it.”

Age Ageing

Book:Path of the Spirit Runner

Source: Path of the Spirit Runner

“I remember young Austrian boys going to school, flocks of quail they were, sitting out their recess in different spots in the sun, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, with damp rosy mouths, smelling of the herd childhood, facts of history glimmering in their minds like sunlight, soon to be lost, soon to be forgotten, degraded into proof. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”

Age Time Youth

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“J'ai vingt-cinq ans, j'écris ce livre, et j'ai cet âge une fois pour toutes. Cela fait vingt-cinq ans que je l'ai, et j'espère bien l'avoir encore pendant vingt-cinq ans au moins, et même plus d'ailleurs, si mon corps s'aligne sur les statistiques - ce que je suis tout de même en droit d'attendre de lui, me faisant déjà assez remarquer comme ça. J'ai mis longtemps à avoir l'âge que j'avais secrètement, je garderai longtemps secrètement cet âge.”

Age Identité

Book:Journal de Trêve

Source: Journal de Trêve

“The pulse of the age must be sought elsewhere: in the minor decorative arts, in the lines of ornament, in lettering, and so on.”

Age Arts Ornament Lettering

Author:Heinrich Wölfflin

“The very same things that makes some unhappy, are making others happy. It is not the things. It is the way you are thinking about them. You are the one making yourself unhappy or happy. You are the force.”

Happiness

Author:Akin Akinbodunse

“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living was, in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object, a shell she inhabited.”

Life Wisdom Age Miraculous Shell

Book:A Reliable Wife

Source: A Reliable Wife

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