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At times I mentally seize him by the shoulders and shout:
‘Should literature be a path-finder or a bromide? Decide! Decide!’

Художник состоит из трех вещей — из самолюбования, тщеславия и лени. Если ты не в состоянии работать, значит, один из трех компонентов (или же все разом) разбух сверх меры и давит на тебя изнутри.

Art occurs at the point where a form is sincerely honoured by an awakened spirit.

Dear D.H.L. so wrong, so right, so great, may his ghost breathe on us all!

Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembling
fingers the four words (four letters! four faces!) with which every story-teller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellow-men. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: ‘Once upon a time….’

‘Patience’ he said. ‘There is never enough of it.’

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine.

Всего богаче та любовь, которая согласна отдать себя на суд времени.

Город становится миром, когда ты любишь одного из живущих в нем людей.

But now, then, tell me — which of us was the greater liar? I cheated you, you cheated yourself.