I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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