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Age brings loneliness and lowered vitality. Friends move away, fall away, or die off, and their reassuring nearness is no more. Stairs become harder to climb, streets harder to walk. Life seems futile: a heavy fatalism settles over the will.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 169