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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life
"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force
"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art
"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
Morality
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