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Everything on earth is beautif...

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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Write, write, write-till your ...

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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A woman is fascinated not by a...

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

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Calculating selfishness is the...

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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Life is given only once, and o...

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

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If you say in the first chapte...

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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A sweet lie is more gracious f...

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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I kept thinking how marvellous...

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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You don't understand, you fool...

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

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People are far more sincere an...

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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I confess I seldom commune wit...

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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Ivanov: Once I worked hard and...

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

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And it is the way with us that...

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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A man can deceive his fiancee ...

A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

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What a delight it is to respec...

What a delight it is to respect people!

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The leaves did not stir on the...

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of lif

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Only entropy comes easy....

Only entropy comes easy.

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Wherever there is degeneration...

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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Try to be original in your pla...

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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In displaying the psychology o...

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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