“Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.”
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
“In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”
“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.”
“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”