I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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