Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881