There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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