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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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