I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....
I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
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 know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.
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.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
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