I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there any…

Leo Tolstoy
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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2011). War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, p.519, Vintage
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