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I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#failure #age

As we grow old...the beauty steals inward. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#age

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #humor #intense #intensity #love

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#born #fashion-designer #life #lifestyle #live

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#inspirational #time #age

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#philosophy #writer #age

What are you doing here anyway?" "Here as in your bedroom, or here as in the great, spiritual question of our purpose on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious arguement, but – ” “I'm going back to bed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #age

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#wheel-of-time #age

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#siblings #age

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. (418) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#being #doing #fun #love #regret