“It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces.”– Rem Koolhaas Related Quotes “Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”— Victor Hugo “Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.”– Harry Mathews “The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if a hand were stroking it. He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare”—