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• In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only…
• Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -…
• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the…
• But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for…
• In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane…
• It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor…
• I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

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