ages of life

don't match the seasons as people think: the first twenty years are a long New Year's Day, the last twenty a New Year's Eve; the twenties are summer, the thirties spring, the forties autumn — and life has no winter except illness and solitude.

“a kind of protracted New Year's Day; and the last twenty oversee, absorb, order and codify whatever has been experienced previously human life does not have a winter, unless one wants to call those cold recurring seasons of solitude, hopelessness and unfruitfulness, our periods of illness, the winter seasons of man. The twenties: hot, burdensome, thundery”

ages of life, n.Definitions

ages of life