“Certain details will age, as do the fashions of another time, but the foundation, the method, constitute one of those great aspects of the human mind, the majesty of which is only…”

— Louis Pasteur

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

— Cesare Pavese

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting.”

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