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- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
- To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must…
- When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
- You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
- It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
- Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I…
- All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important…
- "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
- It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The…
- A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
- Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back…
- I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
- I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why…
- In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time…
- He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like…
- There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries.…
- And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the…
- This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
- Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains…
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