Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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