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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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

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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

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"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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