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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there."
"And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life."
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"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
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