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When you're thirsty and it se...

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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If you cry ''Forward'' you mu...

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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Sports are positively essenti...

Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable ch...

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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If I were asked to chose betw...

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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I don't like being successful...

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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In descriptions of nature one...

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky):...

Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

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Idea for a short story. The s...

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

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The personal life of every in...

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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It seems to me that all of th...

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

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And it is the way with us tha...

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

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I would like to be a free art...

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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A naive man is nothing better...

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

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Isolation in creative work is...

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

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The past,' he thought, 'is li...

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Never bring a cannon on stage...

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

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[Ognev] recalled endless, hea...

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

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I will begin with what in my ...

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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Lermontov died at age twenty-...

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

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