You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVThis 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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The 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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