The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
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