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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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

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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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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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Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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Only one who loves can remember so well.

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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

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There is nothing new in art except talent.

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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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

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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

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