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"The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
Being
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
Woman
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
Being
"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
Age
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Love
"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
Truth
"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
Art
"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."
Success
"The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage."
Society
"Buying is a profound pleasure."
Pleasure
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