The compensation of growing old…was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained – at last! – the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, – the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

The compensation of growing old…was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained – at last! – the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, – the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

– Virginia Woolf –

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