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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is you

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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Does age poison us, or do we poison age? – Terri Guillemets

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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. – Robert Browning

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. – Albert Ellis

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