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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."
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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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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."
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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
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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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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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