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When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

— Jean Anouilh Time Remembered (1958)

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There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Becket (1959)

Live your life, and bear fruits.- DIKIRR.

Stuart Allan (2010)

But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Cecile or The School for Fathers (1954)

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”

Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010)

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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