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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

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But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

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