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Quotes by Dramatist
"Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven."
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"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
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"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three."
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"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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"Beshrew me but I love her heartily, For she is wise, if I can judge of her, And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true, And true she is, as she hath proved herself: And therefore like herself, wise, fair, and true, Shall she be placed in my constant soul."
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"This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The night is long that never finds th."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life...Sasha: In life it's the same.Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life!"
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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
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"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
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"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do."
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"Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...."
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"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
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"Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music."
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"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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