"If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him."
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"What a delight it is to respect people!"
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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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"There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent."
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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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"In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry."
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"The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring."
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"I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense...."
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"There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday."
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"The air of one's native country is the most healthy air."
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"Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life."
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"What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?"
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"To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic"
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"You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes."
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"Love is a scandal of the personal sort."
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"Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another."
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"There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man."
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"Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes."
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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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"Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling."
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