No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .
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