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Man is what he believes.

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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

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

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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

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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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