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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

—William Boyd

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

—Simone Weil

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We often hear of the beauties of old age, but the only old age that is beautiful is the one the man has been long preparing for by living a beautiful life. Every one of us is right now preparing for old age. … There may be a substitute somewhere in the world for Good Nature, but I do not know where it can be found. The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

—John Updike

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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

—Bertrand Russell

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Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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Life goes on, having nowhere else to go.

—Diane Ackerman

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Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

—Simone de Beauvoir

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

—Lawrence Durrell

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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them!

—Paul Claudel

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You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

—Susan Mallery in Two of a Kind

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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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