Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.
I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
I am forever living in my childhood.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
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