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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
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The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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There are few virtues a man can possess more erotic than culinary skill.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by wit, genius, and sense, than by humour.
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