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

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...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

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Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

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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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To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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