If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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