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Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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

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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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

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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

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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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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

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

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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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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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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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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