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... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to retirement homes that they entrust the care of accompanying their parents to the threshold, with no fuss or bother). And where's the joy in these final hours they ought to be making the most of? They're spent in boredom and bitterness, endlessly revisiting memories. We mustn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.
Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog aging death life

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PEACE 464 clues
LIFE 399 clues
IRONY 349 clues
DEATH 196 clues
AGING 139 clues
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HAPPINESS 84 clues
EMPTINESS 58 clues
SLAVERY 49 clues
MEDITATION 45 clues
NOSTALGIA 31 clues
NOTHINGNESS 26 clues
MEMORIES 23 clues
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Unscramble MURIEL6-letter words that start with M6-letter words that end in L6-letter words containing UR6-letter words containing EL6-letter words with M and U
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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ENE
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AND STILL ___
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