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“A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old.”

Walter Benjamin

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People in the future will see a person who died young as still being young. Meanwhile, those who lived a long life will always seem as if they were always old.

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Aging Generations Legacy Memory Mortality Perception Perspective Time Youth
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