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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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

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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

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

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.

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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

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Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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