You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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