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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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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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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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

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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

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Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

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It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

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

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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