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Quotes by Dramatist
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
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"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."
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"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."
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"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
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"It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself."
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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
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"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
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"Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"But men are men the best sometimes forget."
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"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!"
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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
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