Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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