“Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.”

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old

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