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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
"One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away."
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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