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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

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There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

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When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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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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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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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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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

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