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Formerly, when I would feel a ...

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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They say philosophers and wise...

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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To harbor spiteful feelings ag...

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

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Only one who loves can remembe...

Only one who loves can remember so well.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spit...

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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He is an emancipated thinker w...

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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It's very hard, feeling that y...

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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It's better to live down a sca...

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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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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It is not only the prisoners w...

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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Watching a woman make Russian ...

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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But if you had asked him what ...

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: 'My work is literature.'

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My holy of holies is the human...

My holy of holies is the human body.

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The aim of fiction is absolute...

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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A woman can become a man's fri...

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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Fine. Since the tea is not for...

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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This man, who for twenty-five ...

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! W

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After us they'll fly in hot ai...

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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If you want to work on your ar...

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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It is the writer's business no...

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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