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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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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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In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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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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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

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If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

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