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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

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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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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

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You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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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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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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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

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I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

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