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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
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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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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
Age
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
Experience
"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
Art
"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."
Time
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
Art
"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
Painting
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Nothing
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Shadow
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Art
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