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Quotes by Dramatist
"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
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"Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest."
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"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
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"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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"Let them obey that know not how to rule."
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"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
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"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable."
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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
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"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."
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"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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"People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope."
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"Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength."
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"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
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"Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!"
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"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
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"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
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"The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer."
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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
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"I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?"
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
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"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
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