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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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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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There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

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We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

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It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

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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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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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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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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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To advise is not to compel.

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

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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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