In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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