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“[...] when, if the tale's true, The Pestle of the moon That pounds up all anew Brings me to birth again To find what once I had And know what once I have known, Until I am driven mad”

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“I'm 26," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like." "What age do you feel like?" "Nineteen, like you." But to me, 19 still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year, maybe as many as seven years, to learn to feel 19.”

Age Time

Book:The Idiot

Source: The Idiot

“There was something stately about her, at the age of twenty-eight. She was mature and dignified. She looked like the kind of person who knew exactly who she was.”

Love Age Woman

Book:The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You're only who you think you are until you aren't anymore. And it isn't up to you. It's up to time. Life is timing. The test of time. We all have to take it, and none of us pass. No matter how hard you study. Perfect attendance. All that homework. Extracurricular activities. You're still getting an F, just like everyone else. Finite. Failed. Fucked.”

Age Time

Book:The Hollywood Spiral

Source: The Hollywood Spiral

“I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. The world shall find this miracle in me, That fire can burn when all the matter’s spent; Then what my faith hath been thyself shall see, And that thou wast unkind thou mayst repent.”

Love Age Old Age

Book:Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

Source: Delia: Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle

“Dyeing our white hair leaves us, not younger, but older.”

Age Hair Aging Old Age Pessimism White Hair Dye Look Older Premature Aging Look Younger

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Manopause was causing Altitude Hypersensitivity in me.”

Age Environment Astronomy Altitude Adaptation Hormones Covid19 Hypersensitivity Causing Manopause

Book:Summit Brain

Source: Summit Brain

“The young man proudly names his scars for his lover; the old man alone before a mirror erases his scars with his eyes and sees himself whole”

Wisdom Age Youth Scars

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Age wrinkles the body................Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

Age Quitting Is Not An Option

Author:GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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