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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
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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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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
Politics
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
Man
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
American
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
Misunderstanding
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Poetry
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