Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVA 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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Man is what he believes.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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