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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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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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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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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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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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Calculating selfishness is the...

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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One usually dislikes a play wh...

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

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My holy of holies is the human...

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

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My love is like a stone tied r...

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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There is nothing more awful, i...

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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Only during hard times do peop...

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

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I let myself go at the beginni...

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

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To make a face from marble mea...

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

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Faith is a capacity of the spi...

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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Every person lives his real, m...

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

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The illusion which exalts us i...

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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In all the universe nothing re...

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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Art, especially the stage, is ...

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

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But at the same time, in reali...

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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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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