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Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto ev...more

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When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't ...more

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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

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Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of lif...more

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In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our l...more

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Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

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When you are in your twenties, if even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, ...more