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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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"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it."
Age
"That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum."
Art
"The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman."
Enemy
"As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture."
Truth
"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity."
Act
"The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals."
Art
"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs."
Man
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