The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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