Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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