The longer we stick around, the more unfamiliar we can become to ourselves, each distorted version of our younger "prime" selves a little less recognizable than the last. Cling too hard to your youthful double and risk becoming a surgerized, injected parody. Or worse. That, after all, is the unmissable warning carried by The Picture of Dorian Gray: if you seek eternal youth, and deny your aging double its reality, you'll both end up dead.

XREF: Echoes Wilde's Dorian Gray and connects to broader themes about identity, aging, and the psychology of self-continuity.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 580