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Old age matters High on the agenda against getting outsmarted in life is to establish a basic, tragic consciousness. Old age and infirmity could be fit for that - There is much to learn as one survives, for example how to live to an old age and make sober use of the time left, for example. Some quotes and stories contain hints.

Georg Saal Schwarzwaldstube. View into a Blackforest living room with small girl on the oven bench. 1881. Section.
Girl sitting on an oven bench in Schwarzwald

Getting older should be better than being long dead.

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