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

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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

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Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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

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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

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In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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

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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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

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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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