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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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Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

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I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

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

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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

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