If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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