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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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