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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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