age [Theme] Page 4

The rich always dream and think about the future, while others often like to remember the past and do not even want to imagine their future life, hoping that it cannot be better. Some refer to age, others to missed opportunities.

What meanness, what dishonesty is this most trivial collision: a forty-year-old husband has lost interest in his wife, who has lost the charm of youth, and has fallen in love with another. As if the wife is to blame for having faded, giving birth to children, providing him with a peaceful, happy life!

It was difficult to say anything definite about the age of the corporal. But judging by his cynicism and general world-weariness - qualities that corrode the human personality with acid - Nobbs was at least seven thousand years old.

At the end of his career, a person strives for meaning, and at the beginning - for a goal.

And everyone, if he is honest, will tell you the same; after fifty people are no longer needed; after fifty, you get tired of telling women how pretty they are.

Brunet was right: his life became destiny. His age, his class, his era - he accepted all this, took responsibility for everything, he chose a lead stick of right-wing thugs that would hit him in the temple, a German grenade that would tear him to shreds. He actively turned on, he gave up his freedom, now he is only a soldier and nothing more. And everything was immediately returned to him, even his freedom. "He is freer than me: he lives in harmony with himself and in harmony with the party."

You see, in principle, the instincts of our old pirate grandfather spoke in both of us. Only I got rid of them in one fell swoop, and you pull them drop by drop, you can't get to the bottom. I think that by nature you are much less a pirate than I am, and this is what ruins you: your life is an eternal compromise between a tendency to rebellion and anarchy, very moderate, and your hidden inclinations that attract you to order, moral health, I would said, almost to routine. As a result, you remained an aged, irresponsible student. But, my friend, take a good look at yourself: you are thirty-four years old, your head is gradually turning gray - though not like mine - there is nothing of a youth in you anymore, the life of a bohemian is not suitable for you. Besides, what is bohemianism? It was great a hundred years ago, now it's a handful of harmless muddlers who missed the train. You have already entered the age of maturity, Mathieu, or, in any case, you should have entered it.

- If you start talking nonsense, this is a sure sign that I've been too busy with you.

- Yes, grandpa.

- In the eyes of society, unmarried women at our age look pathetic. Therefore, I forget insults and try to make them laugh.

... In [advanced] age, tragedy is no less fascinating than love.

Great age is like a great height, but from a height you can see better.

everyday life. - be like children, otherwise you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.