Quote by Muriel Spark
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupils soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. – Muriel Spark

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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – Muriel Spark

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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx

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Were still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. Thats the old metaphor: Youre born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. – Jane Fonda

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely. – Camille Pissarro

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