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"The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing."
"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."
"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."
"I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest."
"Women can't forgive failure."
"Man is what he believes."
"Write, write, write-till your fingers break."
"Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."
"A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field."
"I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious."
"It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand."
"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
"When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'"
"To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man."
"Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms."
"It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy."
"The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work."
"The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them."
"You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know."
"Brevity - the sister of talent."