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Quote by Leon Edel
The answer to old age is to keep ones mind busy and to go on with

The answer to old age is to keep ones mind busy and to go on with ones life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. – Leon Edel

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