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“If you’re a naturally bittersweet type, you have a head start; you’re constitutionally primed to feel the tug of impermanence. Another way to get there is simply to wait for middle age, which seems to carry some of the psychological benefits of aging without the downsides of your body falling apart.”
Susan Cain
Bittersweet
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Impermanence
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Aging
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Psychological Benefits
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Personality
2.
“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”
Neil Gaiman
Aging
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Family
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Identity
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Repetition
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Perception
3.
“When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.”
Douglas Adams
Writing
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Experience
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Creativity
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Career
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Aging
4.
“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I’m sleeping.”
John Grisham
Life Goals
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Mortality
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Work-life Balance
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Personal Wishes
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Aging
5.
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friendship
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Aging
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Disillusionment
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Life Stages
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Wisdom
6.
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age
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Youth
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Aging
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Societal Change
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Nostalgia
7.
“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
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Aging
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Innocence
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Responsibility
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Human Nature
8.
“As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aging
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Comfort
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Human Connection
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Time
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Intimacy
9.
“Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aging
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Loneliness
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Disillusionment
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Time
,
Human Condition
10.
“The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Childhood
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Perception
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Adolescence
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Aging
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Human Development
11.
“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aging
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Future
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Apprehension
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Time
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Life Stages
12.
“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aging
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Women
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American Culture
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Dissatisfaction
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Observation
13.
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
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Aging
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Beauty
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Melancholy
,
Life Stages
14.
“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
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Aging
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Life
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Perspective
,
Human Nature
15.
“Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.”
Michel de Montaigne
Wine
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Joy
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Youth
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Aging
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Pleasure
16.
“God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.”
Michel de Montaigne
Aging
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Death
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God
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Perspective
,
Human Condition
17.
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.”
Michel de Montaigne
Aging
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Mind
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Soul
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Human Nature
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Life Cycle
18.
“Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.”
Michel de Montaigne
Aging
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Spirit
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Positivity
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Wisdom
,
Human Nature
19.
“How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?”
Michel de Montaigne
Reputation
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Aging
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Honor
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Human Nature
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Time
20.
“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Aging
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Perspective
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Life
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Wisdom
,
Realization
21.
“It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Aging
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Intellect
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Expression
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Personal Growth
,
Wisdom
22.
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
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Aging
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Momentum
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Perspective
,
Experience
23.
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom
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Aging
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Silence
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Speech
,
Youthful Folly
24.
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”
W.H. Auden
Narcissism
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Self-love
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Beauty
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Aging
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Mythology
25.
“My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.”
W.H. Auden
Self-deprecation
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Aging
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Metaphor
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Appearance
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Humor
26.
“The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.”
W.H. Auden
Aging
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Conformity
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Individuality
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Rebellion
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Metaphor
27.
“All over America high school and college kids thinking ‘Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking’ while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded.”
Jack Kerouac
Youth
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Perspective
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Reality
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Aging
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Disillusionment
28.
“Tranquility is the old man’s milk.”
Thomas Jefferson
Tranquility
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Peace
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Aging
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Wisdom
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Well-being
29.
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
Thomas Jefferson
Aging
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Fear
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Mortality
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Life Philosophy
,
Personal Reflection
30.
“Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.”
Langston Hughes
Aging
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Recognition
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Hypocrisy
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Social Critique
,
Personal Dignity
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