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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."

"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy."

"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."

"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."

"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."

"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."
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