Chekhov's Mistress
There’s a reason my grandmother always swore she was 39
Dostoevsky & Selimovic on turning 40
And here are a couple of quotes from dead masters to prove it:
“I am now forty years old, and, after all, forty years is a whole lifetime; after all, it’s the most extreme old age. To live beyond forty is indecent, banal, immoral! Who lives beyond forty – answer me sincerely, honestly? I’ll tell you who does: fools and scoundrals do.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
“I am forty years old, an ugly age: one is still young enough to have dreams, but already too old to fulfill any of them. This is the age when the restlessness in every man subsides so he can become strong by habit and by the certainty he has acquired of the infirmity to come.”
– Mesa Selimovic, Death and the Dervish
These guys sum up my thoughts so well I need not add more.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: June 29, 2004
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Song of Myself: Diary
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