Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.
— Douglas MacArthur
— Douglas MacArthur
I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it’s cold on a hot day. It isn’t good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.
Yoko Tawada, from ‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear’, tr. Susan Bernofsky
Yoko Tawada, from ‘Memoirs of a Polar Bear’, tr. Susan Bernofsky