Book: Diaries. Page 1

This month, which, thanks to the absence of the chief, I could have made good use of, I slept without any special excuses and wasted it. Even today I spent three hours in bed after dinner, finding fantastic excuses for this.

If we are obsessed with a devil, then there cannot be one devil. Only a multitude of devils can make up our earthly misfortune.

Tonight, out of boredom, I washed my hands in the bathroom three times in a row.

Just do not overestimate what I have written, otherwise I will not write what I have to write.

Gods, innumerable, give everything to their favorites, all in full: all the joys are innumerable, all the pains, innumerable, all in full ...

Goethe's poems are beyond the reach of a reciter.

How refreshing is a conversation with a complete fool.

If the actor, who is ordered to beat the other, in excitement under an excessive influx of feelings begins to really beat and the other screams in pain, then the person in the viewer must protest and he must intervene.

Since everyday life inevitably invades any friendship, many of its manifestations are drowned out all the time.

The memory of a small nation is no less than that of a great nation, therefore it assimilates the available material better.

Literature spreads throughout the country through its strong ties to political slogans.

Many merits of literature - the awakening of minds, the preservation of the integrity of the national consciousness, the pride and support that the nation derives from literature, the temporary but fruitful awakening of high aspirations in the younger generation - all this can be achieved even by such literature, which, due to the lack of outstanding talents has only the appearance of being widely developed.

Good direction can turn a bad piece into a wonderful theatrical experience.

Do you have connections at court? At first, I answered in the negative, somewhat embarrassedly, but then with all the more pride I declared that if I had any connections, I, according to my current notions, would be ashamed to count on them. They grinned; I felt I answered rashly. One should beware of speaking such truths out loud.