The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

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Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.

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There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

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Man is what he believes.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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