"My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it."
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"A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!"
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"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
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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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"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
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"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
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"Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf."
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"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."
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"It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward."
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"I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind."
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"To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!"
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"Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it."
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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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"A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves."
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"Everyone has the same God; only people differ."
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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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"Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts."
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"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
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"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does."
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"After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die."
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