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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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Personal Development
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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Personal Development
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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Personal Development
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
Mortality
"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Love
"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
Spiritual
"I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."
Emotion
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
Temptation
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
Satire
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
Art
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Love
"Most people are boring and stupid."
Society
"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."
Mortality
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