There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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