Middle age

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The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Middle age

Author

Ivan Turgenev

Source

Fathers and Sons

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

Current Citation

Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Topic

Beauty Grace Aging Middle age

Author

John Donne

Source

Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Middle age Youth vs. old age

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Stages of Life

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Die Lebenswende." Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. Rascher, 1931.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Topic

Middle age The road not taken Shrinking horizons Aging

Author

Donald Justice

Source

Men at Forty

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

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Middle age Aging

Author

Franklin P. Adams

Source

Nods and Becks

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

Title of book.

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Middle age Aging

Author

Walter B. Pitkin

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.