Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

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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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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

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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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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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