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“The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 782da8da0114ad819754544c6529677d6445db2424bdd2a049a28c3b0a957617
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.”
Alfred Tennyson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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John G. Whittier
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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