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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....

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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

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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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