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Old age (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its tranquillity after the storms of youth are everyone's involuntary proof that the psyche runs on energy.

Old age (n.) guards ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mysteries and the laws among primitives; with us the old compete with the young — in America the ideal father is his sons' brother and the mother her daughter's younger sister.

Old age (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its extreme returns us to childhood's condition: submerged in the unconscious, a problem for others rather than ourselves.

Old age (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠refuses its descent leaves people wooden — nostalgic pillars of salt with vivid memories of youth and no living relation to the present.

Old age (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠will not focus on the goal of death is as neurotic as youth that represses its fantasies of the future.

Old age (n.) near ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠death sees immense vistas of time, living no longer in personal relationships but in the movement of ideas through the centuries.

Old age (n.) frees ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one to take risks: in his eighth decade, Jung says, men's changing opinions scarcely impress him, and the old masters weigh more than Western prejudice.

Old age (n.) brings ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠back old sweet memories: when one thinks of dying, they return from the womb of time, as a forgotten Paris love returned to a sceptical professor of seventy-two.