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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

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To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

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

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There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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