“ At one moment you can become an old man in order to suck in through the funnel of memory, in slow draughts, what you have experienced, at another you are in the first blush of youth, flushed with hope; at one moment masculine, at another feminine; now you enjoy immediately, now you enjoy reflecting on your enjoyment, now reflecting on the enjoyment of others ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation