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| 22269 | We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age |
| Full Idea: I am training and sharpening my appetite for those pleasures that are left. ...We must cling tooth and claw to the use of the pleasures of this life which the advancing years, one after another, rip from our grasp. | |||
| From: Michel de Montaigne (I.39 On Solitude [1580], p.276) | |||
| A reaction: That may be one of the most inspiring ideas I have read about pleasure. |