The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
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To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
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