The Art of Growing OldJ. Cape, 1944 - 218 pages |
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Page 22
... course like all universal human responses to life — like love and hate and desire and fear and pleasure and pain and excitement and boredom - humour is something that escapes any easy definition . But detachment from the ordinary ...
... course like all universal human responses to life — like love and hate and desire and fear and pleasure and pain and excitement and boredom - humour is something that escapes any easy definition . But detachment from the ordinary ...
Page 29
... course , only begins when the fuss and fury and fever of competition has , at least , pro tem . , died down . This blessed state comes to us all in connection with our detachment from the world . And it comes more frequently to men than ...
... course , only begins when the fuss and fury and fever of competition has , at least , pro tem . , died down . This blessed state comes to us all in connection with our detachment from the world . And it comes more frequently to men than ...
Page 138
... course , women who possess these ; but I suspect they are a small minority . No , the purely aesthetic and the purely philosophical tendency , along with the hunting - instinct , and the moral - legal instinct , and the scientific ...
... course , women who possess these ; but I suspect they are a small minority . No , the purely aesthetic and the purely philosophical tendency , along with the hunting - instinct , and the moral - legal instinct , and the scientific ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION L | 7 |
OLD AGE IN MAN AND WOMAN | 26 |
FEMININE OLD AGE AND NATURE | 37 |
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