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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

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The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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

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I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

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

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In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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

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

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

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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

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