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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."
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"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."


"America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."


"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."


"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."


"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."


"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing."


"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken."


"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
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