The Diary of a Man of Fifty
A sensitive woman, disappointed in marriage, exhausts her own ingenuity before she takes counsel.
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
no great weeping when I go. I did not even manage to marry the woman I loved
Mick Jackson • The Underground Man
“Any person at forty or fifty years of age who is not appalled by some of his or her choices in the earlier decades is either dumb lucky or remains unconscious.”
—James Hollis
‘Somebody,’ said Jacques, ‘your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.’