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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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There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

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

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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

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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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Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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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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Life has gone by as if I never lived

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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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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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It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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