They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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