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"They say eyes clear with age."
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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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"In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures."
"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"
"Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself."
"Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up."
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