You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy 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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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