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- Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
- When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass…
- When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one…
- Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now…
- A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What…
- [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
- I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good…
- You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the…
- When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you;…
- Write only of what is important and eternal.
- When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
- Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing…
- 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…
- Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
- It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present…
- Only entropy comes easy.
- Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of…
- An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the…
- You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
- The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
- You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:…
- What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle…
- And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
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