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Posted: 10 Nov 2022

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 Dinesh
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Vanity increases with age. Here I am, going on ninety-five; by this time, I should have learned the art of silence, and should realize that every educated reader has already heard all opinions and their opposites; yet here I set out, fearful and rash, to tell the world -- or one hundred millionth of it -- just what I think of everything. It is all the more ridiculous since, at my age, a man is deeply rooted in the ways or views of his youth, and is almost constitutionally incapable of understanding the changing world that assails him, and from which he tends to flee into groves of the past or the safety of his home. ~ Page 9
18 months ago. Edited 18 months ago.
 Dinesh
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. . . . we stand at the top of the hill, and without straining our eyes we can see, at its bottom, death. We work all the harder to forget that it is waiting for us; we turn our eyes back in memory the days that were not darkened with its presence; we revel in the company of the youth because they cast over us, transiently and incompletely, their divine carelessness of mortality. Hence it is in work and parentage that middle age finds its fulfillment and its happiness. ` Page 24
18 months ago. Edited 18 months ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
Grow strong, my comrade…that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The shattered fragments of my song will come
At last to finer melody in you;
That I may tell my heart that you begin
Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.”

"To My Wife" ~ Will Durant
18 months ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
I am quite content with mortality; I should be appalled at the thought of living forever, in whatever paradise. As I move on into my nineties my ambitions moderate, my zest in life wanes; soon I shall echo Caesar’s ‘Jam satis vixi’ -- “I have already lived enough”. When death comes in due time, after a life fully lived, it is forgivable and good. If in my last gasps I shall anything contrary to this bravado, pay no attention to me. We must make room for our children. ~ Page 39
18 months ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
Aftr Washington Indira and Nehru flew to Los Angeles where they revived somewhat, visiting Disneyland and a film studio and meeting with Marlon Brando, the writer Aldous Huxlley and the historian Will Durant before returning to India. The only tangible outcome of the 1961 visit to the United State in fact was Jackie Kennedy’s highly successful and much publicized return visit to India the following March.~ "Indira" ~ Katherine Frank
4 months ago.