“The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.”

— David Riesman

“Clinical and Cultural Aspects of the Aging Process,” p. 485
Individualism Reconsidered (1954)

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American Sociologist 1909–2002

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