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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."
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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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"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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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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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 writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."
Creativity
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
Time
"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
Old
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
Experience
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Life
"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
Will
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
Writer
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
Art
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
Business
"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."
Philosophy
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