"Man will become better when you show him what he is like."
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"Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs."
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"My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves."
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"Write only of what is important and eternal."
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"Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone."
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"It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person."
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"I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing."
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"In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle."
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"Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness."
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"The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working."
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"Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time."
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"Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here."
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"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about."
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."
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"I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious."
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"In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why."
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"[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit."
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"At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people."
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