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"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Music
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
People
"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."
Beauty
"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
Science
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
Education
"Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything."
Philosophy
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