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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

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

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

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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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