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I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers n

I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. – James Joyce

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. – James Joyce

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – James Joyce

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Old age is a special problem for me because Ive never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19. – E. B. White

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is lifes parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. – Simone de Beauvoir

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