"We don't grow older, we grow riper."
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"If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was."
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"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him."
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"Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history."
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"The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it."
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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."
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"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
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"Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal."
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
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"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
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"I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down."
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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
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"Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"Old age spiritualizes people naturally"
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"It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory."
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"I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago."
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"After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination."
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"No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart."
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