Joseph Conrad Quotes
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
Carine Roitfeld
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
Ian Botham
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Paolo Sorrentino
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
Laura Prepon
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
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My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne Dyer
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
Ted Dekker
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
Iain Banks
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
Lewis Mumford
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Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
James Rollins
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It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
Arthur Smith
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You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.
Cheryl Tiegs
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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
Bede Griffiths
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
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Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
John Cornwell
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I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
Anthony Browne
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What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
Edwin Louis Cole
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.
David Geffen
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And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
