"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent."
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"Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life."
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"To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred."
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"A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect."
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"You cannot judge the value of a life by its length."
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"It is always the season for the old to learn."
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"Time in his aging overtakes all things alike."
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"Life, the permission to know death."
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"Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging."
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"Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree."
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"Crawling still gets you there."
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"You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats."
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"I have the problems of, I must confess, old age."
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"We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be."
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"The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us."
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"Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing."
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"Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose."
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"...an old man is twice a child."
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"What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't."
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"Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away."
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