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"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
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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 man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
People
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
Thought
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
Wrong
"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
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"Wars are made to make debt."
Debt
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