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Flirt before forty, if you must, and philosophize after it, would seem to be a rule followed by too many modern people. Fortunately, some will find better things to do in a better age than to spend their swift-passing years in seeking to attract amatory attentions. They may then be able to pause and think for a while as to why they incarnated. Flippant flirtation is certainly a pleasant mode of passing time, but it is not an activity that can be continued into the sixties and seventies of one's life. And those who become aware of this certainty in advance will not find life becoming an unutterable and unbearable bore as they become older, as do the others.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 182