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

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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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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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

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When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

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

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