"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
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"Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason."
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"An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress."
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"He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things."
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"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter"
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"When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel."
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"Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before."
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"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
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"Only entropy comes easy."
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"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
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"I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days."
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"Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self."
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"Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work."
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"I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants."
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"Life on earth is inconceivable without trees."
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"When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind."
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"Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature."
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"Writers are as jealous as pigeons."
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"[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion."
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"My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life."
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