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Quotes by Dramatist
"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
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"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
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"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
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"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
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"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
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"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat."
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."
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"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
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"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
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"MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence."
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"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
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"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
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