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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

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Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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