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The surest sign of age is loneliness. - Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness. – Annie Dillard

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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. – Annie Dillard

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Birthday
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Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? – Annie Dillard

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God
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Its a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. – Annie Dillard

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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. – J. G. Ballard

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No man is ever old enough to know better. – Holbrook Jackson

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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. – Nadia Comaneci

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. – Honore de Balzac

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One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. – Lemony Snicket

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