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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"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."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."

"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

"God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything."

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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