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It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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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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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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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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When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

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Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

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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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