He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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