Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.