“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
Source: The Angel's Game
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón 149
Spanish writer 1964Related quotes

“But when an old man dances,
His locks with age are grey.
But he's a child in mind.”
Odes, XXXIX. (XXXVII), 3.

Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 11 : The Limits of Governmental Activity http://mises.org/liberal/ch1sec11.asp
Liberalism (1927)
Context: A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

Graham Greene "Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno" (1934); cited from Collected Essays (New York: The Viking Press, 1969) p. 175
Criticism

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old