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Letter "A" » Age
«Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
gentle, good night, old age, rage, rave, raved, raves, raving
«Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.»
«By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.»
«Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.»
Author: Ruth Gordon
(Actress, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Boredom
| Keywords:
discussing, Temple of, The temple
«Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
| Keywords:
accepts, beauties, cruelties, cultures, custom, human culture, it accepts, overlap, overlapping, patiently, Real Character, reduced, sufferings, tradition, Two Cultures
«Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies»
«By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.»
«Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
basket, consign, consigned, waste-paper basket, wastepaper basket
«Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
come after, Coming of age, fascination, fascinations, old age
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