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Quotes by Dramatist
"Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!"
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
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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 statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers."
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"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."
Time,
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"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."
Man,
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"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."
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"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
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"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love,
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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"No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart."
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
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