"The further consequence I admit, was that I ruined my health, got heart disease, and am now an old woman. Probably you think that I'm much older than Hans, but the fact is that he's only two or three years younger than me and will never grow any older either, for at his work -- smoking his pipe, listening to the customers, knocking out his pipe again, and fetching an occasional pot of beer -- at that sort of work one doesn't grow old."
~Franz Kafka - The Castle