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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because the

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the age of the individuals liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno

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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Im at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasnt competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now Ive gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. – Courteney Cox

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