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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter

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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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