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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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Personal Development
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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Personal Development
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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Personal Development
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps."
Heart
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
Self-Perception
"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."
People
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
Experience
"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
Family
"Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
Nostalgia
"It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all."
Passion
"In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of."
Man
"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"
Dance
"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
Creativity
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