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Faust: "What you don't know is just what you want; what you know is
what you can't use."

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Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak
with authority.

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As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.

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A German: "Lord have mercy on us, _grieshniki_."[1]

[Footnote 1: _Grieshniki_ means "sinners," but sounds like
_grietchnieviki_ which means "buckwheat cakes."]

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"O my dear little pimple!" said the bride tenderly. The bridegroom
thought for a while, then felt hurt--they parted.

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They were mineral water bottles with preserved cherries in them.

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An actress who spoilt all her parts by very bad acting--and this
continued all her life long until she died. Nobody liked her; she
ruined all the best parts; and yet she went on acting until she was
seventy.

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He alone is all right and can repent who feels himself to be wrong.

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The archdeacon curses the "doubters," and they stand in the choir and
sing anathema to themselves (Skitalez).

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He imagined that his wife lay with her legs cut off and that he nursed
her in order to save his soul....

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Madame Snuffley.

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The black-beetles have left the house; the house will be burnt down.

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"Dmitri, the Pretender, and Actors." "Turgenev and the Tigers."
Articles like that can be and are written.

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A title: Lemon Peel.

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I am your legitimate husband.

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An abortion, because while birthing a wave struck her, a wave of the
ocean; because of the eruption of Vesuvius.

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It seems to me: the sea and myself--and nothing else.

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Education: his three-year-old son wore a black frock-coat, boots, and
waistcoat.

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With pride: "I'm not of Yuriev, but