I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly you find—at the age of fifty, say—that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
ATTRIBUTION:
Agatha Christie (1891–1976), British mystery novelist. An Autobiography, part 11 (1977).
Christie worked on this book sporadically from 1950 to 1965, though it was not published until after her death.
