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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.
I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.