Worn brown sneakers beside green garden clogs and small white flowers on a pale blue surface.

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City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York ‧ 1994

Mason Cooley

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Retirement isn't a rerun of youthful pleasure-seeking. The speaker suggests it calls for a fresh idea of what enjoyment means, one suited to a different stage of life, instead of trying to recapture how you once had fun.

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