The afternoon of life

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. One cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

CARL JUNG
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Princeton University Press)

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