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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."
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"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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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
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"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
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"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."
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"The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world."
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"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
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"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
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"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered."
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"I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel."
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"Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world."
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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."
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"Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive."
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"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
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"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."
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"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
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"ROMEOThere is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
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"Only one who loves can remember so well."
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"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
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