"Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind."
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"I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around."
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"When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old."
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"I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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"One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves."
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"Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages."
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"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."
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"From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others."
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"It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it."
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"Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time."
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"You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again."
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"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
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"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
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"If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools."
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"One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly"
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"I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal."
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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
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"A woman has the age she deserves."
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"The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia."
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"Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation."
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