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"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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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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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
Marriage
"Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."
Life
"Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."
Family
"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."
Time
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
Conversation
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
Marriage
"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."
Work
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."
Love
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
Happiness
"People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel."
Intelligence
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