It's a sign of the hollowness of our sense of self that we seek to cheat death, that we seek to cheat aging.
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Simon and Garfunkel on Winter in the City
Old friends, winter companions
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Guardini on True Education
True education is rooted in being, not in knowledge … The educated person is the one who has been shaped by the inward law of form, whose being and action and thinking and deeds and person and environment conform to an inner image. Such persons thus have unity in great diversity.
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Jules Kaye on a Child’s Experience of the World
When I was a little younger than you, I used to think that the world was made up of big people and little people; and that's the way it would always stay. And then I always wondered why sinks were too high and you had to climb up to wash your face. Cupboards, too high. The hole in the toilet was too big. Nothing, nothing was made for us. It was just a world of big people and little people. You never got any older and nobody ever died.
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