Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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