I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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