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High above the lake a bomber flies.
From the rowing boats
Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
They appear like young starlings, their beaks
Wide open for food.Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195 -
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
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I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
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