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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill

Its not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us its the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. – Virginia Woolf

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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If youth knew if age could. – Sigmund Freud

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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus

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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. – Paul Cezanne

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