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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

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

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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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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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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

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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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