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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence

"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
Time

"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
Evil

"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
Illusion

"Writing only leads to more writing."
Writing

"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Writer

"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
Man

"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
Silence

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm

"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
Rights
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