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.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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