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The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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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.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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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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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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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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