To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite st…

Albert Einstein
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To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged. ✨ Albert Einstein (2015). Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century, p.19, St. Martin's Press
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